Characterization of heavy metals and brominated flame retardants in the indoor and outdoor dust of e-waste workshops: implication for on-site human exposure

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 5469-5480

  Xu, Feng ^a   Liu, Yangcheng ^a   Wang, Junxia ^a   Zhang, Gang ^a   Zhang, Wei ^a   Liu, Lili ^a   Wang, Jinfu ^b   Pan, Bishu ^b   Lin, Kuangfei ^a  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Taizhou Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

Author keywords

Brominated flame retardants; Heavy metals; Indoor dust; On site human exposure; Outdoor dust

Indexed keywords

DIPHENYL ETHER DERIVATIVE; DUST; FLAME RETARDANT; HEAVY METAL;

ANALYSIS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHINA; DUST; ELECTRONIC WASTE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROCEDURES; RECYCLING; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHINA; DUST; ELECTRONIC WASTE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLAME RETARDANTS; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; HUMANS; METALS, HEAVY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RECYCLING; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84925496767     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-014-3773-z     Document Type: Article

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