Human health risks associated with dietary exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in river water in Korea

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 470-471, Issue , 2014, Pages 1362-1369

  Lee, Sun Hong ^a   Ra, Jin Sung ^a   Choi, Jae Won ^b   Yim, Byung Jin ^c   Jung, Myung Sook ^d   Kim, Sang Don ^a  

^a Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

^b Department of Microbiology Water Quality Research Center   (South Korea)

^c Yeongsan River Environmental Research Center   (South Korea)

^d National Institute of Environmental Research   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Human health risk; Organochlorine pesticides; Sensitivity; Uncertainty; Yeongsan River

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; DISEASES; FISH; INSECTICIDES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVERS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION;

DETERMINISTIC AND PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONCENTRATION; HUMAN HEALTH RISKS; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; SENSITIVITY; UNCERTAINTY;

HEALTH RISKS;

CHLORPYRIFOS; DIELDRIN; HEPTACHLOR; HEPTACHLOR EPOXIDE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; METHOXYCHLOR; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; RIVER WATER;

ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; ORGANOCHLORINE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVER WATER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DIETARY INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HEALTH HAZARD; KOREA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER ANALYSIS;

SOUTH KOREA; YOUNGSAN RIVER;

HUMAN HEALTH RISK; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; SENSITIVITY; UNCERTAINTY; YEONGSAN RIVER;

ANIMALS; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FISHES; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PESTICIDES; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84891741142     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.08.030     Document Type: Article

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