Cadmium contents in rice samples from various areas in the world

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 184, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 191-196

  Watanabe, Takao ^a   Shimbo, Shinichiro ^b   Moon, Chan Seok ^c   Zhang, Zuo Wen ^c   Ikeda, Masayuki ^c  

^a MIYAGI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^b KYOTO WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asia; Cadmium; China; Japan; Korea; Rice

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CHINA; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; JAPAN; KOREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICE;

ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 0029996843     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0048-9697(96)05100-5     Document Type: Article

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