Pollutants and high risk groups. Overview.
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Pollutants and high risk groups. Overview.
I'd like to leave you with just a few points. If you think back again to the opening of this conference as to why we are concerned with increased susceptibility, however one might define it, I think the panels expanded upon Dr. Barth's opening remarks. The sponsoring agency has expressed its concern that the legal mandates under which the federal agencies are working require that high risk grou...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 1979
ISSN: 0091-6765,1552-9924
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.29-1637357