Article
Biomonitoring of possible human exposure to environmental genotoxic chemicals: lessons from a study following the wreck of the oil tanker Braer.
Environmental and molecular mutagenesis - 1 Jan 1997
Cole J, Beare D M, Waugh A P, Capulas E, Aldridge K E, Arlett C F, Green M H, Crum J E, Cox D, Garner R C, Dingley K H, Martin E A, Podmore K, Heydon R, Farmer P B
Abstract excerpt
In January 1993 the oil tanker Braer ran aground in the Shetland Islands, Scotland. Approximately 80,000 tons of crude oil were released. Exceptionally high winds caused extensive pollution and exposure of the local population to crude oil. We describe the study which was immediately set in place...
Topics
- Accidents, Occupational
- Adult
- Air Pollutants
- DNA Adducts
- Environmental Exposure
- Environmental Monitoring
- Hemoglobins
- Humans
- Hydrocarbons, Aromatic
- Hypoxanthine Phosphoribosyltransferase
- Lymphocytes
- Male
- Middle Aged