Persistent Organic Pollutants: An Overview

Dioxins and Health: Including Other Persistent Organic Pollutants and Endocrine Disruptors: Third Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-35

  Wikoff, Daniele ^a   Fitzgerald, Lauren ^a   Birnbaum, Linda ^b  

^a ToxStrategies Inc   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring of POPs, and degradation resistance; PCBs, PCDD Fs, and PBDEs; POPs, effects on human health and wildlife

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887253765     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118184141.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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