Estimating children’s soil/dust ingestion rates through retrospective analyses of blood lead biomonitoring from the Bunker Hill superfund site in Idaho

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 124, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1462-1470

  von Lindern, Ian ^a   Spalinger, Susan ^a   Stifelman, Marc L ^b   Stanek, Lindsay Wichers ^b   Bartrem, Casey ^a  

^a TerraGraphics Environmental Engineering Inc   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BUNKER HILL MINING; CHILD; DOSE RESPONSE; DUST; HAZARDOUS WASTE SITE; HUMAN; INGESTION; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINING; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SLOPE FACTOR; SOIL; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; ABSORPTION; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS; BLOOD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; IDAHO; INFANT; NEWBORN; PHARMACOKINETICS; POLLUTANT; SOIL POLLUTANT;

DUST; LEAD; POLLUTANT; SOIL POLLUTANT;

ABSORPTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HUMANS; IDAHO; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEAD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84985006917     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1510144     Document Type: Article

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