Corrigendum: Health Risks Assessments in Children for Phthalates Exposure Associated with Childcare Facilities and Indoor Playgrounds
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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Page 1 of 1 EHT http://e-eht.org/ We found an error in our published article: In Table 6, the unit concentration of phthalates was not correctly indicated. The unit of concentration of floor dust is “μg/g dust”, product surface “μg/cm” and hand surface “μg/cm”.
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Health Risks Assessment in Children for Phthalate Exposure Associated with Childcare Facilities and Indoor Playgrounds
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