Cause-specific mortality of Dutch chlorophenoxy herbicide manufacturing workers
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Mortality among triazine herbicide manufacturing workers.
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عنوان ژورنال: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1351-0711
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2008.044222