What goes around comes around? High levels of cadmium in low cost jewelry

IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Streicher Porte, Martin ^a   Buckenmayer, Alexandra ^b   Pfenninger, Susanne ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b Official Food Control Authority of the Canton of Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Artificial sweat solution; Cadmium; Gastric acid; Lead silver solder; Low cost jewelry; Metal migration; Nickel cadmium cells

Indexed keywords

COPPER; EMPLOYMENT; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; ISOTOPES; LEAD; METALS; MINERALS; NICKEL; NICKEL ALLOYS; ORE TREATMENT; ORES; SILVER; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; ZINC;

ARTIFICIAL SWEAT SOLUTION; ELECTRONIC INDUSTRIES; EUROPEAN; GASTRIC ACID; GASTRIC ACIDS; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATIONS; LEAD SILVER SOLDER; LOW COST JEWELRY; LOW COSTS; MATERIAL COMPOSITIONS; MEASURED VALUES; METAL MIGRATION; METAL MIGRATIONS; NICKEL-CADMIUM CELLS; PRODUCTION CHAINS; RECYCLING TECHNIQUES;

CADMIUM;

EID: 51849112934     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISEE.2008.4562946     Document Type: Conference Paper

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