Lead in calcium supplements

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 309-313

  Scelfo, Genine M ^a   Flegal, A Russell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antacids; Bonemeal; Calcium supplements; Dolomite; Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP MS); Infant formulas; Lead; Nutritional supplements; Oyster shell; Vitamins

Indexed keywords

ANTACID AGENT; CALCIUM; LEAD; MINERAL; VITAMIN;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BONE; CHELATION; DRUG CONTAMINATION; DRUG SYNTHESIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OYSTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0034116219     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.00108309     Document Type: Article

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