Environmental toxicants in developing countries.
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Environmental toxicants in developing countries.
Health effects from environmental toxicants may be a more serious problem in developing countries compared with developed countries because the problem is potentiated by other factors: a) the lack of or failure to enforce regulations, which allows human exposures to genotoxic agents; b) undernourishment of the lower economic and social classes that comprise the most exposed populations from ind...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0091-6765,1552-9924
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.96104s3599