Seafood arsenic: Implications for human risk assessment

Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 204-212

  Borak, Jonathan ^a   Hosgood, H Dean ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Arsenosugar; Organic arsenic; Risk assessment; Seafood; Seafood arsenic

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; ARSENOBETAINE; ARSENOCHOLINE; DRINKING WATER; ORGANIC COMPOUND; TRIMETHYL ARSINE OXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARCINOGENICITY; DIET; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD POISONING; HUMAN; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; METABOLISM; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RODENT; SEA FOOD; WORKPLACE;

ANIMALS; ARSENIC POISONING; ARSENICALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEAFOOD; WATER POLLUTANTS;

RODENTIA;

EID: 33846826975     PISSN: 02732300     EISSN: 10960295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yrtph.2006.09.005     Document Type: Article

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