Trophic transfer of trace elements and associated human health effects

Trace Elements in the Environment: Biogeochemistry, Biotechnology, and Bioremediation

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 659-688

  Love, Amit ^a   Babu, C R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

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