Chromium contamination in black tea and its transfer into tea brew

Food Chemistry

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1066-1069

  Seenivasan, Subbiah ^a   Manikandan, Natarajan ^a   Muraleedharan, Narayanan Nair ^a  

^a UPASI Tea Research Foundation   (India)

Author keywords

Black tea; Chromium; Contamination; CTC rollers

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM;

ARTICLE; BREWING; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD PROCESSING; TEA;

CAMELLIA SINENSIS;

EID: 34548481796     PISSN: 03088146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2007.07.027     Document Type: Article

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