Arsenic, cadmium and lead in medicinal herbs and their fractionation

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2871-2875

  Arpadjan, S ^a   Celik G ^b   Taskesen S ^b   Güçer, Ş ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^b Bursa Test and Analysis Laboratory   (Turkey)

^c ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Arsenic, cadmium; Fractionation; Herbal medicines; Lead

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; LEAD;

ACHILLEA; ARCTOSTAPHYLOS UVA URSI; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; FRACTIONATION; HERB; HIBISCUS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEDICINAL PLANT; OREGANO; PH; QUALITY CONTROL; THYME;

ARSENIC; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; CADMIUM; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FLOWERS; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; LEAD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

ACHILLEA; ACHILLEA MILLEFOLIUM; ARCTOSTAPHYLOS UVA-URSI; HIBISCUS; HIBISCUS SABDARIFFA; MENTHA; MENTHA X PIPERITA; ORIGANUM; ORIGANUM VULGARE; THYMUS SERPYLLUM; THYMUS VULGARIS;

EID: 47349109342     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2008.05.027     Document Type: Article

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