Evaluation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons using analytical methods, toxicology, and risk assessment research: Seafood safety after a petroleum spill as an example

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 6-9

  Wickliffe, Jeffrey ^a   Overton, Edward ^b   Frickel, Scott ^c   Howard, Jessi ^a   Wilson, Mark ^a   Simon, Bridget ^a   Echsner, Stephen ^a   Nguyen, Daniel ^d   Gauthe, David ^e   Blake, Diane ^a   Miller, Charles ^a   Elferink, Cornelis ^f   Ansari, Shakeel ^f   Fernando, Harshica ^f   Trapido, Edward ^g   Kane, Andrew ^h  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Mary Queen of Vietnam Community Development Corporation Inc   (United States)

^e Bayou Interfaith Shared Community Organizing   (United States)

^f University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^g LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 METHYLNAPHTHALENE; CARCINOGEN; NAPHTHALENE; PETROLEUM; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

ANALYTIC METHOD; CANCER RISK; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; ION MONITORING; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MUTAGENICITY; NOTE; OIL SPILL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEA FOOD; SEA POLLUTION;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; PETROLEUM; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEAFOOD;

EID: 84891522259     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1306724     Document Type: Note

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