Assessment of Human Health Risk for an Area Impacted by a Large-Scale Metallurgical Refinery Complex in Hunan, China

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 863-881

  Wei, Jing ^a,b   Chen, Mengfang ^a,b   Song, Jing ^a,b   Luo, Fei ^a,b   Han, Lu ^a,b   Li, Chunping ^a   Dong, Mingang ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

arsenic; carcinogenic risk; contaminated sites; hazard index; heavy metals; human health risk assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919844443     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807039.2014.890479     Document Type: Article

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