Content and bioconcentration of mercury in mushrooms from northern Poland

Food Additives and Contaminants

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 247-253

  Falandysz, J ^a   Gucia, M ^a   Brzostowski, A ^a   Kawano, M ^b   Bielawski, L ^a   Frankowska, A ^a   Wyrzykowski, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bioconcentration; Food; Fungi; Mercury; Pollution; Soil; Toxic metals

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

AGARICUS; AMANITA PHALLOIDES; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BIOACCUMULATION; CITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRY WEIGHT; EDIBLE MUSHROOM; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FRUITING BODY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MUSHROOM; NONHUMAN; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AGARICALES; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; MERCURY; POLAND; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC;

AGARICUS; AGARICUS ARVENSIS; AMANITA; AMANITA PHALLOIDES; BASIDIOMYCOTA; BOLETUS; BOLETUS EDULIS; EQUUS CABALLUS; FUNGI; LACTARIUS; LACTARIUS TORMINOSUS; LECCINUM; LECCINUM SCABRUM; LEPIOTA PROCERA; MACROLEPIOTA PROCERA; XEROCOMUS; XEROCOMUS SUBTOMENTOSUS;

EID: 0037352492     PISSN: 0265203X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0265203021000057485     Document Type: Article

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