Market survey on toxic metals contained in tattoo inks

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 5997-6002

  Forte, Giovanni ^a   Petrucci, Francesco ^a   Cristaudo, Antonio ^b   Bocca, Beatrice ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b SAN GALLICANO DERMATOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Inks; Metals; SF ICP MS; Skin allergies; Tattoos

Indexed keywords

LIMITS OF QUANTIFICATION; MAIN COMPONENT; MARKET SURVEYS; METAL CONCENTRATIONS; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SECTOR FIELD INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRIES; SF-ICP-MS; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; TATTOOS; TOXIC METALS;

ACIDS; ALLERGIES; ALUMINUM; BARIUM; BARIUM COMPOUNDS; CHROMIUM; HYDROGEN; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; INK; LEAD; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MERCURY (METAL); METAL RECOVERY; METALS; NICKEL; NITRIC ACID; PAINT; SKIN; STRONTIUM; TOXIC MATERIALS;

CADMIUM;

ALUMINUM; ANTIMONY; BARIUM; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; HEAVY METAL; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; IRON; LEAD; MANGANESE; MERCURY; NICKEL; NITRIC ACID; STRONTIUM; VANADIUM;

HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METAL; NITRIC ACID; PIGMENT; SKIN DISORDER; TOXIC MATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAFETY; SKIN ALLERGY; SKIN INFLAMMATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; TATTOO;

DATA COLLECTION; INK; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TATTOOING;

EID: 70349448405     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.08.034     Document Type: Article

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