Assessment of Pb, Cd, Cu, and Zn exposures of 6- to 10-year-old children in Mumbai

Environmental Research

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 215-221

  Raghunath, Radha ^a   Tripathi, R M ^a   Kumar, A Vinod ^a   Sathe, A P ^a   Khandekar, R N ^a   Nambi, K S V ^a  

^a BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; COPPER; LEAD; ZINC;

AIR ANALYSIS; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR SAMPLING; ANODIC STRIPPING POTENTIOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; DIET; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EXPOSURE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INDIA; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032945797     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/enrs.1998.3919     Document Type: Article

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