Determining tissue-lead levels in large game mammals harvested with lead bullets: Human health concerns

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 435-439

  Tsuji, L J S ^a   Wainman, B C ^b   Jayasinghe, R K ^c   Vanspronsen, E P ^a   Liberda, E N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Jacques Whitford Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

Human consumption; Lead bullets; Lead contaminated wild meat

Indexed keywords

BODY BURDENS; HUMAN CONSUMPTION; HUMAN HEALTH CONCERNS; ISOTOPE RATIOS; LEAD CONCENTRATIONS; LEAD EXPOSURES; LEAD ISOTOPE RATIOS; LEAD PELLETS; RADIOGRAPHIC EVIDENCES;

CONTAMINATION; GAME THEORY; HARVESTING; ISOTOPES; MAMMALS; MEATS; MUSCLE; PELLETIZING; PROJECTILES;

LEAD;

LEAD;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BULLET; LIVER LEVEL; MEAT; MUSCLE LEVEL; NONHUMAN; RADIOGRAPHY; WHITE TAILED DEER;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CANADA; DEER; EATING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIREARMS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; LEAD; LIVER; MEAT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 63049086985     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: 14320800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00128-009-9647-2     Document Type: Article

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