Levels and profile of several classes of organic contaminants in matched indoor dust and serum samples from occupational settings of Pakistan

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 193, Issue , 2014, Pages 269-276

  Ali, Nadeem ^a,b   Mehdi, Toufeer ^c   Malik, Riffat N ^d   Eqani, Syed A M A S ^e   Kamal, Atif ^d   Dirtu, Alin C ^a   Neels, Hugo ^a   Covaci, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^d QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^e COMSATS Institute of Information Technology ^*  (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Dust; Occupational settings; Organic contaminants; Pakistan; Serum

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; DUST; FLAME RETARDANTS;

1 ,2-BIS(2 ,4 ,6-TRIBROMOPHENOXY) ETHANE; DUST INGESTION; HUMAN EXPOSURES; ORGANIC CONTAMINANT; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; PAKISTAN; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER (PBDES); SERUM;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; 1,2 BIS(2,4,6 TRIBROMOPHENOXY) ETHANE; BIS(2 ETHYLHEXYL) TETRABROMOPHTHALATE; BROMOPHENOL DERIVATIVE; FLAME RETARDANT; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DUST; INDOOR AIR; INGESTION RATE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; ORGANOCHLORINE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PBDE; PCB; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SERUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CLOTHING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DUST EXPOSURE; ELECTRONICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORGANIC DUST; PAKISTAN; POLLUTANT; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

FAISALABAD; PAKISTAN; PUNJAB [PAKISTAN];

DUST; OCCUPATIONAL SETTINGS; ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS; PAKISTAN; SERUM;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; DICHLORODIPHENYL DICHLOROETHYLENE; DUST; FLAME RETARDANTS; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORGANOPHOSPHATES; PAKISTAN; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

EID: 84905169390     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2014.07.009     Document Type: Article

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