Elemental composition of Jamaican foods 1: A survey of five food crop categories

Environmental Geochemistry and Health

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 19-30

  Howe, Andrea ^a   Fung, Leslie Hoo ^a   Lalor, Gerald ^a   Rattray, Robin ^a   Vutchkov, Mitko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Food; Heavy metals; Jamaica; Soil; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

BROMINE; HEAVY METAL; MINERAL; TRACE ELEMENT;

FOOD QUALITY; HEALTH RISK; HEAVY METAL; POLLUTANT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD ANALYSIS; FRUIT; GEOGRAPHY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JAMAICA; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; PLANT ROOT; VEGETABLE;

ANIMALS; BROMINE; DATA COLLECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD ANALYSIS; FRUIT; GEOGRAPHY; JAMAICA; METALS, HEAVY; MINERALS; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; PLANT ROOTS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; TRACE ELEMENTS; VEGETABLES;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; JAMAICA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 13744257873     PISSN: 02694042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10653-004-5671-7     Document Type: Article

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