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Heavy Metals in Pacific Cod (Gadus macrocephalus) from the Aleutians: Location, Age, Size, and Risk

Joanna Burger Division of Life Sciences, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI), Piscataway, New Jersey; Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation (CRESP), Rutgers University, Piscataway, New JerseyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Michael Gochfeld Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI), Piscataway, New Jersey, USA; Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation (CRESP), Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey; Environmental and Occupational Medicine, University of Medicine, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA; Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA
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Tara Shukla Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI), Piscataway, New Jersey, USA; Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation (CRESP), Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey; Environmental and Occupational Medicine, University of Medicine, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA; Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA
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Christian Jeitner Division of Life Sciences, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI), Piscataway, New Jersey; Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation (CRESP), Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey
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Sean Burke Division of Life Sciences, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI), Piscataway, New Jersey; Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation (CRESP), Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey
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Mark Donio Division of Life Sciences, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI), Piscataway, New Jersey; Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation (CRESP), Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey
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Sheila Shukla Division of Life Sciences, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI), Piscataway, New Jersey; Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation (CRESP), Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey
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Ronald Snigaroff Villages of Atka and Nikolski, Aleutians, Alaska, USA
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Daniel Snigaroff Villages of Atka and Nikolski, Aleutians, Alaska, USA
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Timothy Stamm Villages of Atka and Nikolski, Aleutians, Alaska, USA
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Conrad Volz Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Pages 1897-1911 | Received 22 Mar 2007, Accepted 16 May 2007, Published online: 26 Oct 2007

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