Rules and recent trends for setting health-based occupational exposure limits for chemicals
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Rules and recent trends for setting health-based occupational exposure limits for chemicals.
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1896-494X
DOI: 10.13075/ijomeh.1896.00243