Methylmercury and inorganic mercury determination in fish by cold vapour generation atomic absorption spectrometry

Food Chemistry

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 529-533

  Ubillus F ^b   Alegria A ^c   Barbera R ^a   Farre R ^a   Lagarda, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b Faculty of Engineering   (Peru)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Cold vapour AAS; Fish; Inorganic mercury; Methylmercury

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY; ORGANOMERCURY COMPOUND;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD CONTROL; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN;

EID: 0033833417     PISSN: 03088146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0308-8146(00)00154-0     Document Type: Article

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