In the past two decades there has been an increasing public awareness of the hazards that exist from the contamination of the environment by toxic substances. '

This document is the result of a conference on "Biological Monitoring of Metals" held in Rochester, June 2-6, 1986, organized jointly by the Environmental Healt

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