The content of essential and toxic elements in croatian propolis samples and their tinctures

Journal of Apicultural Research

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 35-45

  Cvek, Josipa ^a   Medić Šarić, Marica ^b   Vitali, Dubravka ^b   Vedrina Dragojević, Irena ^b   Šmit, Zdenko ^c   Tomić, Siniša ^a  

^a Agency for Medicinal Products and Medical Devices   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^c Zagreb Institute of Public Health   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Atomic absorption spectrometry; Essential and toxic elements; Health safety; Inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry; Propolis

Indexed keywords

EID: 41149147541     PISSN: 00218839     EISSN: 20786913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00218839.2008.11101421     Document Type: Article

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