Health risk assessment for human exposure by direct ingestion of Pb, Cd, Zn bearing dust in the former miners' village of Jebel Ressas (NE Tunisia)

European Journal of Mineralogy

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 639-649

  Ghorbel, Manel ^a,b   Munoz, Marguerite ^a   Courjault Radé, Pierre ^a   Destrigneville, Christine ^a   De Parseval, Philippe ^a   Souissi, Radhia ^c   Souissi, Fouad ^b   Abdallah Mammou, B E N ^b   Abdeljaouad, Sâadi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^c Institut National de Recherche et d'Analyse Physico Chimique Tunis   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Bioaccessibility; Dust; Gastric fluid; Metal bearing carbonates; Mining wastes; Speciation

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DUST; HEALTH; HEALTH RISKS; IRON COMPOUNDS; LEAD COMPOUNDS; LEAD METALLOGRAPHY; METALS; MINERS; RISK PERCEPTION; RURAL AREAS; SILICATES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; ZINC METALLOGRAPHY; ZINC SULFIDE;

BIOACCESSIBILITY; GASTRIC FLUIDS; METAL BEARINGS; MINING WASTE; SPECIATION;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DIGESTION; DUST; HEALTH RISK; HEAVY METAL; MINE WASTE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; VILLAGE;

TUNISIA;

EID: 78649414846     PISSN: 09351221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0935-1221/2010/0022-2037     Document Type: Conference Paper

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