Two decades of environmental surveillance in the vicinity of a waste incinerator: Human health risks associated with metals and PCDD/Fs

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 241-253

  Vilavert, Lolita ^a   Nadal, Martí ^a   Schuhmacher, Marta ^a   Domingo, José L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METAL; METAL DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN; 2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; BENZOFURAN DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORODIBENZO-4-DIOXIN; POLYMER; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEALTH RISK; HEAVY METAL; INCINERATION; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PCDD; PCDF; POLLUTION MONITORING; PUBLIC HEALTH; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AIR; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENICITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INCINERATION; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE INCINERATOR; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL; SPAIN; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREND STUDY; VEGETATION; WASTE; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTANT;

CATALONIA; SPAIN; TARRAGONA [CATALONIA];

BENZOFURANS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; INCINERATION; METALS, HEAVY; POLYMERS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SPAIN; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN;

EID: 84944441533     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: 14320703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00244-015-0168-1     Document Type: Article

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