Assessing potential risk of heavy metal exposure from consumption of home-produced vegetables by urban populations

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 215-221

  Hough, Rupert L ^a,d   Breward, Neil ^b   Young, Scott D ^a   Crout, Neil M J ^a   Tye, Andrew M ^a   Moir, Ann M ^c   Thornton, Iain ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exposure; Hazard index; Mapping; Metals; Risk; Urban; Vegetables

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; COPPER; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; NICKEL; ZINC;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP PRODUCTION; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; GEOCHEMISTRY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEAVY METAL POISONING; INHALATION; PLANT GROWTH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN POPULATION; VEGETABLE;

EID: 1042268941     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.5589     Document Type: Article

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