Pesticide Residues: Organochlorines

Encyclopedia of Food Safety

Volumn 3, Issue , 2014, Pages 23-30

  Mrema, E J ^a   Colosio, C ^b   Rubino, F M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Bioaccumulation; Chemical hazards; Chlordecone; Contamination; Cyclodienes; Dichlorodiphenylethanes; Hexachlorobenzene; Hexachlorocyclohexanes; Mirex; OCPs; Organochlorinated pesticides; Persistent organic pollutants; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920117355     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-378612-8.00238-9     Document Type: Chapter

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