Cancer and non-cancer excess mortality resulting from mixed exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls and polychlorinated dibenzofurans from contaminated rice oil: “Yusho”

International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 419-430

  Kashima, Saori ^a   Yorifuji, Takashi ^b   Tsuda, Toshihide ^b   Eboshida, Akira ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chlorinated dibenzofurans; Food contamination; Heart disease; Leukemia; Mortality; Polychlorinated biphenyls

Indexed keywords

BENZOFURAN DERIVATIVE; CHLORINATED DIBENZOFURANS; POLLUTANT; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; VEGETABLE OIL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTOXICATION; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; ORYZA; POLLUTANT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VITAL STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BENZOFURANS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HUMANS; INFANT; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; ORYZA; PLANT OILS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; VITAL STATISTICS;

EID: 84939881301     PISSN: 03400131     EISSN: 14321246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00420-014-0966-1     Document Type: Article

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