Cadmium in food production systems: A health risk for sensitive population groups

Ambio

Volumn 34, Issue 4-5, 2005, Pages 344-351

  Olsson, Ing Marie ^b   Eriksson, Jan ^a   Öborn, Ingrid ^a   Skerfving, Staffan ^c,d,e,f,g,h   Oskarsson, Agneta ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL BOARD OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d National Swedish Board of Health and Welfare   (Sweden)

^e National Swedish Food Administration   (Sweden)

^f National Swedish Chemical Inspectorate   (Sweden)

^g Swedish Labour Inspectorate   (Sweden)

^h LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; FOOD QUALITY; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN; WORLD;

EID: 22344439733     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-34.4.344     Document Type: Conference Paper

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62. Acknowledgments: Some of the studies quoted here were supported by grants from the foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (MISTRA, Food 21). the National Swedish Environment Protection Agency, the Swedish Council for Worklife Research, the Swedish Research Council for Environment. Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning, the Medical Faculty, Lund University, and the county councils of Southern and Northern Sweden.