Hazard quotient profiles used as a risk assessment tool for PFOS and PFOA serum levels in three distinctive European populations

Environment International

Volumn 74, Issue , 2015, Pages 112-118

  Ludwicki, Jan K ^a   Góralczyk, Katarzyna ^a   Struciński, Paweł ^a   Wojtyniak, Bogdan ^a   Rabczenko, Daniel ^a   Toft, Gunnar ^b   Lindh, Christian H ^c   Jönsson, Bo A G ^c   Lenters, Virissa ^d   Heederik, Dick ^d   Czaja, Katarzyna ^a   Hernik, Agnieszka ^a   Pedersen, Henning S ^e   Zvyezday, Valentyna ^f   Bonde, Jens Peter ^g  

^a NATIONAL MEDICINES INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e Primary Health Care Clinic   (Greenland)

^f KHARKIV NATIONAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^g Mental Health Center Glostrup   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Environmental contaminants; Hazard quotients; Perfluorooctane sulfonate; Perfluorooctanoic acid; Risk assessment; Serum levels

Indexed keywords

BIOHAZARDS; CELL DEATH; CHEMICAL RESISTANCE; RISK MANAGEMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANT; HAZARD QUOTIENTS; PERFLUOROOCTANE SULFONATES; PERFLUOROOCTANOIC ACID; SERUM LEVELS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

PERFLUOROOCTANESULFONIC ACID; PERFLUOROOCTANOIC ACID; ALKANESULFONIC ACID; FLUOROCARBON; OCTANOIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

BIOMONITORING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HAZARD ASSESSMENT; POLLUTANT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SERUM; TOXICOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GREENLAND; HAZARD QUOTIENT; HUMAN; MALE; POLAND; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; UKRAINE; UNCERTAINTY; ANALYSIS; BLOOD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; POLAND; UKRAINE;

ALKANESULFONIC ACIDS; CAPRYLATES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FLUOROCARBONS; GREENLAND; HUMANS; MALE; POLAND; PREGNANCY; RISK ASSESSMENT; UKRAINE;

EID: 84908627670     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2014.10.001     Document Type: Article

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