Human Exposure Assessment for DBPs: Factors Influencing Blood Trihalomethane Levels

Encyclopedia of Environmental Health

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 100-107

  Blount, B C ^a   Backer, L C ^a   Aylward, L L ^b   Hays, S M ^b   LaKind, J S ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b LLP   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Biomonitoring equivalents; Blood; Bromodichloromethane; Bromoform; Chloroform; Dibromochloromethane; Human; Trihalomethanes; Water disinfection by products

Indexed keywords

EID: 84965040633     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-52272-6.00103-3     Document Type: Chapter

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