Cadmium concentration in vegetables grown on urban soils irrigated with untreated municipal sewage

Environment, Development and Sustainability

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 11-19

  Qadir, M ^a,b   Ghafoor, A ^a   Murtaza, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Human health; Municipal sewage; Soil contamination; Vegetables

Indexed keywords

EID: 3843146482     PISSN: 1387585X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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