Plastic and Human Health: A Micro Issue?

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Environmental Science and Technology

• Publication date

  2017-06-07

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1021/acs.est.7b00423PMID 28531345
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