Multi-exposure cancer and non-cancer risk assessment of trihalomethanes in drinking water supplies - A case study of Eastern region of India

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 113, Issue , 2015, Pages 433-438

  Kumari, Minashree ^a   Gupta, S K ^a   Mishra, B K ^a  

^a INDIAN SCHOOL OF MINES   (India)

Author keywords

Cancer risk; Dermal absorption; Hazard index; Oral ingestion; Trihalomethanes

Indexed keywords

BROMODICHLOROMETHANE; CHLOROFORM; DIBROMOCHLOROMETHANE; DRINKING WATER; TRIHALOMETHANE; WATER POLLUTANT;

CANCER; DRINKING WATER; GUIDELINE; HALOGENATED HYDROCARBON; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEALTH IMPACT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENICITY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; HUMAN; INDIA; INHALATION; JAPAN; LIFESPAN; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; POPULATION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN ABSORPTION; TOXICITY TESTING; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER CONTAMINATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANALYSIS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DRINKING; EXPOSURE; NEOPLASM; UNCERTAINTY; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER SUPPLY;

INDIA;

DRINKING; DRINKING WATER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MALE; NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN ABSORPTION; TRIHALOMETHANES; UNCERTAINTY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84919775878     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2014.12.028     Document Type: Article

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