Heavy metals in edible green vegetables grown along the sites of the Sinza and Msimbazi rivers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Food Chemistry

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 63-66

  Bahemuka, T E ^a   Mubofu, E B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; ZINC;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD INTAKE; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PLANT; TANZANIA; VEGETABLE;

EID: 0032949581     PISSN: 03088146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0308-8146(98)00213-1     Document Type: Article

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