Cancer and non-cancer health risk from eating cassava grown in some mining communities in Ghana

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 118, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 37-49

  Obiri, S ^a   Dodoo, D K ^a   Okai Sam F ^a   Essumang, D K ^a   Adjorlolo Gasokpoh, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Bogoso; Cadmium; Cancer and non cancer health risk; Oral cancer slope factor; Oral reference dose; Prestea; Tamso; Tarkwa and upper confidence limit on mean concentration (UCLM) of arsenic; Zinc and mercury respectively in cooked cassava

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGENS; CROPS; HEALTH HAZARDS; MINING; SOIL POLLUTION; TOXIC MATERIALS;

CANCER HEALTH RISK; FOOD CROPS; HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL; NON-CANCER HEALTH RISK; ORAL CANCER SLOPE FACTOR;

HEALTH RISKS;

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; MERCURY; ZINC;

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CANCER; CASSAVA; HEALTH RISK; MERCURY (ELEMENT); ZINC;

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CASSAVA; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD QUALITY; FOOD SAFETY; GHANA; HEALTH HAZARD; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MINING; PUBLIC HEALTH; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTION;

AFRICA; GHANA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

COLOCASIA ESCULENTA; MANIHOT ESCULENTA;

EID: 33748194632     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-006-0799-9     Document Type: Article

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