United States National Sewage Sludge Repository at Arizona State University—a new resource and research tool for environmental scientists, engineers, and epidemiologists

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1577-1586

  Venkatesan, Arjun K ^a   Done, Hansa Y ^a   Halden, Rolf U ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosolids; Contaminants of emerging concern; Environmental specimen banks; Human Health Observatory; National repository; Sewage sludge

Indexed keywords

DANGEROUS GOODS; POLLUTANT; SEWAGE; SOIL POLLUTANT;

AGRICULTURE; CHEMISTRY; DANGEROUS GOODS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN; POLLUTANT; SEWAGE; SOIL POLLUTANT; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY;

AGRICULTURE; ARIZONA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; SEWAGE; SOIL POLLUTANTS; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 84930674095     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-014-2961-1     Document Type: Article

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