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Daily consumption of wild fish and game: Exposures of high end recreationists

Joanna Burger Division of Life Sciences, Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation, and Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA
Pages 343-354 | Published online: 21 Jul 2010

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