Background exposure of general population to cadmium and lead in Tainan city, Taiwan

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 121-126

  Ikeda, M ^a   Zhang, Z W ^a   Moon, C S ^a   Imai, Y ^a   Watanabe, T ^b   Shimbo, S ^c   Ma, W C ^d   Lee, C C ^d   Guo, Y L L ^d  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MIYAGI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^c KYOTO WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; LEAD;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BLOOD ANALYSIS; DIETARY INTAKE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TAIWAN;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CADMIUM; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; LEAD; MIDDLE AGED; ORYZA SATIVA; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; TAIWAN;

EID: 0029656224     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00211337     Document Type: Article

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