Exposure assessment of lead to workers and children in the battery recycling craft village, Dong Mai, Vietnam

Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 46-51

  Noguchi, Takako ^a   Itai, Takaaki ^a   Tue, Nguyen Minh ^a,b   Agusa, Tetsuro ^a   Ha, Nguyen Ngoc ^a   Horai, Sawako ^c   Trang, Pham Thi Kim ^b   Viet, Pham Hung ^b   Takahashi, Shin ^a   Tanabe, Shinsuke ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^c TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lead; Pb battery; Recycling; Risk assessment; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893738804     PISSN: 14384957     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10163-013-0159-0     Document Type: Article

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