Titre :
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Yusho : A human disaster caused by PCBs and related compounds
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Auteurs :
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Masanori Kuratsune, éd. ;
Hidetoshi Yoshimura, éd. ;
Yoshiaki Hori, éd. ;
et al.
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Type de document :
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Ouvrage
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Editeur :
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Fukuoka [JAP] : Kyushu University press, 1996
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ISBN :
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978-4-87378-431-1
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Description :
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361p. / ill., fig., ann., index
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Classement :
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ARCH/ (Ouvrages retirés des rayonnages. Conservation fonds historique de la bibliothèque)
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Mots-clés :
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Japon
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Intoxication
;
Epidémie
;
Epidémiologie
;
PCB
;
Produit agroalimentaire
;
Contamination aliment
;
Pollution chimique
;
Santé environnementale
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Résumé :
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In 1968, an epidemic of "strange disease" occured in Western Japan. The epidemic was quickly identified to be an unprecedented mass food poisoning caused by the ingestion of a commercial brand of rice oil that had been contaminated with man-made miracle compounds, namely PCBs and their related compounds. The disease was thereafter named Yusho (oil desease). (R.A.)
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