Organophosphate ester flame retardant concentrations and distributions in serum from inhabitants of Shandong, China, and changes between 2011 and 2015

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 414-421

  Ma, Yulong ^a   Jin, Jun ^a,b   Li, Peng ^a   Xu, Meng ^a   Sun, Yiming ^a   Wang, Ying ^a   Yuan, Haodong ^a  

^a MINZU UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b Engineering Research Center of Food Environment and Public Health   (China)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Flame retardants; Human serum; Organophosphate esters; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

BODY FLUIDS; ESTERS; HEALTH RISKS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

BIOMONITORING; BROMINATED FLAME RETARDANTS; HUMAN SERUM; ORGANOPHOSPHATE ESTERS; PHOSPHATE CONCENTRATION; POTENTIAL HEALTH RISKS; TRI-N-BUTYLPHOSPHATE; TRIPHENYL PHOSPHATE;

FLAME RETARDANTS;

DECABROMODIPHENYL ETHER; ESTER; FLAME RETARDANT; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PHOSPHORIC ACID TRIS(2 CHLOROETHYL) ESTER; TRI N BUTYLPHOSPHATE; TRIPHENYL PHOSPHATE; TRIS(METHYLPHENYL) ESTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DECABROMOBIPHENYL ETHER; DIPHENYL ETHER DERIVATIVE; TRIBUTYL PHOSPHATE; TRIS(CHLOROETHYL)PHOSPHATE;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMONITORING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ESTER; FLAME RETARDANT; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PHOSPHATE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SERUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHINA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENT; SERUM; YOUNG ADULT; AGE; BLOOD; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY;

CHINA; SHANDONG;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTERS; FLAME RETARDANTS; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOPHOSPHATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85010684100     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.3554     Document Type: Article

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