Dietary exposure to essential and toxic trace elements from a Total diet study in an adult Lebanese urban population

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1262-1269

  Nasreddine, L ^a   Nashalian, O ^a   Naja, F ^a   Itani, L ^a   Parent Massin, D ^b   Nabhani Zeidan, M ^a   Hwalla, N ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b UNIVERSITÉ EUROPÉENNE DE BRETAGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Adult; Dietary exposure; Lebanon; Total diet study; Trace elements; Urban

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; IRON; LEAD; MANGANESE; NICKEL; TRACE ELEMENT; ZINC;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; LEBANON; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; MINERAL INTAKE; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; REFERENCE VALUE; TOXICOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; CADMIUM; DIET; DIET SURVEYS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FOOD ANALYSIS; HUMANS; LEAD; LEBANON; MALE; MICRONUTRIENTS; REFERENCE VALUES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; TRACE ELEMENTS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 77951621673     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2010.02.020     Document Type: Article

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