Concentrations of persistent organic pollutants in California women's serum and residential dust

Environmental Research

Volumn 136, Issue , 2015, Pages 57-66

  Whitehead, Todd P ^a   Crispo Smith, Sabrina ^b,c   Park, June Soo ^b   Petreas, Myrto X ^b   Rappaport, Stephen M ^a   Metayer, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Environmental Chemistry Laboratory   (United States)

^c Sequoia Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental monitoring; House dust; Organochlorine pesticides; Polybrominated diphenyl ethers; Polychlorinated biphenyls

Indexed keywords

ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; DUST; ORGANIC COMPOUND; POLLUTANT;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DUST; HYDROCARBON; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PESTICIDE; POLLUTANT SOURCE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SERUM; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BODY MASS; DUST; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LACTATION; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT; REPRODUCTIVE HISTORY; UNITED STATES; BLOOD; CALIFORNIA; HOUSING; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; POLLUTANT; QUESTIONNAIRE;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CALIFORNIA; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HOUSING; HUMANS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84911426265     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2014.10.009     Document Type: Article

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