Review of Potentially Harmful Substances - Carcinogens

Review of Potentially Harmful Substances - Carcinogens

Reports and Studies No. 46

There have been many suggestions that cancers in fish and other marine organisms are commonplace and are attributable to chemical pollution. There is also concern that, as a number of known carcinogens are accumulated by marine organisms that are commercially exploited for human food, they may present a risk to man…

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    Edition: 1991, #46 (66 p.)
    Authors: GESAMP
    Publisher: WHO
    Journal series: Reports and Studies

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