Determination of the bioaccessibility of chromium in Glasgow soil and the implications for human health risk assessment

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 267-277

  Broadway, Andrew ^a   Cave, Mark R ^b   Wragg, Joanna ^b   Fordyce, Fiona M ^b   Bewley, Richard J F ^c   Graham, Margaret C ^a   Ngwenya, Bryne T ^a   Farmer, John G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c URS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioaccessibility; Chromium; Human health; Risk assessment; Soil

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PROCEDURE; ASSESSMENT CRITERIA; BIOACCESSIBILITY; CHROMITE ORE PROCESSING; CONTAMINATED SOILS; DIPHENYLCARBAZIDE; DISSOLVED FRACTION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HPLC ICP MS; HUMAN HEALTH; HUMAN HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT; ICP-OES; PLANT UPTAKE; SIMULATED LUNG FLUID; SITE-SPECIFIC; SOIL ORGANIC MATTERS;

CENTRIFUGATION; CHROMIUM; CONTAMINATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; HEALTH; HEALTH RISKS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS; ULTRAFILTRATION;

CHROMIUM COMPOUNDS;

CHROMIUM; DIPHENYLCARBAZIDE;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BIOACCUMULATION; CHROMIUM; EXTRACTION METHOD; HEALTH RISK; LABORATORY METHOD; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTION;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COLLOID; COLORIMETRY; COMPLEX FORMATION; HEALTH HAZARD; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INTESTINE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; SOIL POLLUTION; STOMACH; ULTRAFILTRATION;

CHROMIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCOTLAND; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 78649730401     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.09.007     Document Type: Article

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