Historical reconstruction of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) exposures for workers in a capacitor manufacturing plant

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 6419-6433

  Hopf, Nancy B ^a   Ruder, Avima M ^a,b   Waters, Martha A ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR WORK AND HEALTH   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Job exposure matrix (JEM); Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB)

Indexed keywords

CANCER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EPIDEMIOLOGY; MANUFACTURING; METALS INDUSTRY; PCB; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RECONSTRUCTION; WORKING CONDITIONS;

AIR POLLUTANT; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; METABOLISM; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84900852263     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-013-1590-4     Document Type: Article

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