Trace elements in home-produced eggs in Belgium: Levels and spatiotemporal distribution

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 4397-4402

  Waegeneers, Nadia ^a   Hoenig, Michel ^a   Goeyens, Leo ^b   De Temmerman, Ludwig ^a  

^a VETERINARY AND AGROCHEMICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^b SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Chicken; Eggs; Metals; Soil; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC ABSORPTION; AVERAGE CONCENTRATION; BELGIUM; CHICKEN; COPPER AND ZINC; EGGS; FRESH WEIGHT; KITCHEN WASTE; LEAD CONCENTRATION; MERCURY VAPOUR; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; SPATIOTEMPORAL DISTRIBUTIONS; TRACE ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS; TRACE ELEMENT CONTENT;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; AIR QUALITY; ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); COPPER; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; LEAD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEATS; MERCURY (METAL); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOILS; TRACE ANALYSIS; ZINC;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; COPPER; LEAD; MERCURY; TRACE ELEMENT; ZINC;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EGG; HEAVY METAL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; POULTRY; SOIL QUALITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TRACE ELEMENT;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION; AUTUMN; BELGIUM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC WASTE; EGG PRODUCTION; FECES COMPOSITION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FORAGE; FORAGING; FRESH WEIGHT; GRASS; HEN; HERB; KITCHEN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL POLLUTION; SPRING; VEGETABLE;

ANIMALS; ARSENIC; BELGIUM; CHICKENS; EGGS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; METALS, HEAVY; SEASONS; SOIL; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC;

EID: 67349190571     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.10.031     Document Type: Article

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