Mercury analysis in hair: Comparability and quality assessment within the transnational COPHES/DEMOCOPHES project

Environmental Research

Volumn 141, Issue , 2015, Pages 24-30

  Esteban, Marta ^a   Schindler, Birgit Karin ^b,c   Jiménez, José Antonio ^a   Koch, Holger Martin ^b   Angerer, Jürgen ^b   Rosado, Montserrat ^a   Gómez, Silvia ^a   Casteleyn, Ludwine ^d   Kolossa Gehring, Marike ^e   Becker, Kerstin ^e   Bloemen, Louis ^f   Schoeters, Greet ^g,h,i   Hond, Elly Den ^g   Sepai, Ovnair ^j   Exley, Karen ^j   Horvat, Milena ^k   Knudsen, Lisbeth E ^l   Joas, Anke ^m   Joas, Reinhard ^m   Aerts, Dominique ⁿ   Biot, Pierre ⁿ   Borošová, Daniela ^o   Davidson, Fred ^p   Dumitrascu, Irina ^q   Fischer, Marc E ^r   Grander, Margaretha ^s   Janasik, Beata ^t   Jones, Kate ^u   Kašparová, Lucie ^v   Larssen, Thorjørn ^w   Naray, Miklos ^x   Nielsen, Flemming ⁱ   Hohenblum, Philipp ^y   Pinto, Rui ^z   Pirard, Catherine ^aa   Plateel, Gregory ^ab   Tratnik, Janja Snoj ^k   Wittsiepe, Jürgen ^b   Castaño, Argelia ^a   Fujimura, Masatake ^ac   LeBlanc, Alain ^ad   Levine, Keith ^ae   Romaniche, Iouri ^af   Verbrugge, David ^ag   Zareba, Grazyna ^ah   more..

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c PROOF ACS GmbH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^e Federal Environment Agency (UBA)   (Germany)

^f Environmental Health Science International   (Netherlands)

^g FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^j PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^k JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^l UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^m BiPRO GmbH   (Germany)

ⁿ Federal Public Service Health   (Belgium)

^o Regional Authority of Public Health of the Slovak Republic   (Slovakia)

^p St Finbarr's Hospital   (Ireland)

^q Environmental Health Centre   (Romania)

^r LABORATOIRE NATIONAL DE SANTÉ   (Luxembourg)

^s KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^t NOFER INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

^u HEALTH AND SAFETY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^v NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Czech Republic)

^w NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^x Hungarian Institute of Occupational Health   (Hungary)

^y Umweltbundesamt GmbH   (Austria)

^z CIMPOR Cimentos de Portugal   (Portugal)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^ab Institut de Santé au Travail IST   (Switzerland)

^ac NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MINAMATA DISEASE   (Japan)

^ad INSTITUT NATIONAL DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE DU QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^ae RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^af First Nations and Inuit Health Branch Laboratory (FNIHB)   (Canada)

^ag Alaska State Public Health Laboratories   (United States)

^ah UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

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Author keywords

Biomonitoring; COPHES DEMOCOPHES; Hair; Mercury; Minamata convention; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; MERCURY; POLLUTANT;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOMARKER; BIOMONITORING; CHILD HEALTH; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA SET; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH CARE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTION EXPOSURE; WOMENS HEALTH;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CAPACITY BUILDING; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HAIR ANALYSIS; HAIR GROWTH; HUMAN; LABORATORY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SCALP HAIR; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPE; FEMALE; HAIR; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MOTHER; PHARMACOKINETICS; POLLUTANT; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARDS;

EUROPE; JAPAN; KUMAMOTO; KYUSHU; MINAMATA;

CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HAIR; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LABORATORIES; MERCURY; MOTHERS; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84939465049     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2014.11.014     Document Type: Article

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