Feasibility study of feces for noninvasive biomonitoring of brominated flame retardants in toddlers

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 606-615

  Sahlström, Leena M O ^a   Sellström, Ulla ^a   De Wit, Cynthia A ^a   Lignell, Sanna ^b   Darnerud, Per Ola ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b National Food Agency   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAME RETARDANTS;

BROMINATED FLAME RETARDANTS; BROMINATED FLAME RETARDANTS (BFRS); DECABROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEXABROMOCYCLODODECANES; NON-INVASIVE MATRIXES; SERUM CONCENTRATION; SPECIFIC CONCENTRATION;

BODY FLUIDS;

BROMINATED FLAME RETARDANT; FLAME RETARDANT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BROMINATED HYDROCARBON;

BIOMONITORING; CHILD HEALTH; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ETHER; FEASIBILITY STUDY; SERUM;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BLOOD LEVEL; BODY BURDEN; CHILD; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FECES; HUMAN; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; INFANT; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STEREOISOMERISM; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FECES; FEMALE; FLAME RETARDANTS; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, BROMINATED; INFANT; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 84925013876     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es504708c     Document Type: Article

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