Assessing the human health risks from exposure of inorganic arsenic through oyster (Crassostrea gigas) consumption in Taiwan

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 361, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 57-66

  Liu, Chen Wuing ^a   Liang, Ching Ping ^b   Huang, Feng Mei ^a   Hsueh, Yu Mei ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Foo Yin University   (Taiwan)

^c TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Health risk assessment; Inorganic arsenic; Oyster

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; BIODIVERSITY; COASTAL ZONES; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FOOD PRESERVATION; MARINE BIOLOGY; TUMORS;

DIMETHYLARSINIC ACID (DMA); HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT; INORGANIC ARSENIC; OYSTERS;

HEALTH RISKS;

ARSENIC; CACODYLIC ACID; CARCINOGEN; INORGANIC COMPOUND; METHANEARSONIC ACID;

ARSENIC; HEALTH CARE; INORGANIC COMPOUND; OYSTER CULTURE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CRASSOSTREA GIGAS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH HAZARD; NONHUMAN; OYSTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TAIWAN;

ANIMALS; ARSENIC; ARSENICALS; CACODYLIC ACID; CRASSOSTREA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEAFOOD; TAIWAN; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

CRASSOSTREA GIGAS; OSTREIDAE;

EID: 33646263822     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2005.06.005     Document Type: Article

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