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Opening Address: Task and Possibilities of a Specimen Bank: Ulrich R. Boehringer, Friedrich Schmidt-Bleek

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Environmental Specimen Banking and Monitoring as Related to Banking

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Ever since the industrial revolution, large numbers and quantities of chemical substances have been introduced into the global environment.

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Boehringer, U.R., Schmidt-Bleek, F. (1984). Opening Address: Task and Possibilities of a Specimen Bank: Ulrich R. Boehringer, Friedrich Schmidt-Bleek. In: Lewis, R.A., Stein, N., Lewis, C.W. (eds) Environmental Specimen Banking and Monitoring as Related to Banking. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6765-6_5

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