A study to evaluate heavy metals and organochlorine pesticide residue in Zingiber officinale Rosc. collected from different ecological zones of India

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 95-98

  Mishra, Chetna ^a   Sharma, Sapna ^a   Kakkar, Poonam ^a  

^a CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; GINGER EXTRACT; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; MERCURY; NICKEL; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; PESTICIDE RESIDUE;

ANTIEMETIC ACTIVITY; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GINGER; INDIA; LIVER TOXICITY; MEDICINAL PLANT; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; POLLUTION; SOIL TREATMENT; TEA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ARSENIC; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GINGER; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; INDIA; METALS, HEAVY; PESTICIDES;

ZINGIBER OFFICINALE;

EID: 34548126117     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: 14320800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00128-007-9140-8     Document Type: Article

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