Assessment of human health risks of consumption of cadmium contaminated cultured oysters

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 370-382

  Cheng, Winnie W L ^a   Gobas, Frank A P C ^b  

^a TRANSPORT CANADA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Hazard; Human health; Oyster; Risk

Indexed keywords

OSTREIDAE;

EID: 33947392567     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807030701226301     Document Type: Article

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