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Assessment of Nonoccupational Exposure to DDT in the Tropics and the North: Relevance of Uptake via Inhalation from Indoor Residual Spraying

BACKGROUND: People who live in dwellings treated with indoor residual spraying (IRS) of DDT [1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethane] for disease–vector control in the tropics and indigenous populations in the Arctic who comsume marine mammals experience high nonoccupational exposure to DDT. A...

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Autores principales: Ritter, Roland, Scheringer, Martin, MacLeod, Matthew, Hungerbühler, Konrad
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3094425/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21536537
http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1002542