Contamination levels for lead, cadmium and mercury in marine gastropods, echinoderms and tunicates

Food Control

Volumn 22, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 433-437

  Noël, Laurent ^a   Testu, Christian ^a   Chafey, Claude ^a   Velge, Pierre ^b   Guérin, Thierry ^a  

^a Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

^b CGAAER   (France)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Echinoderms; Lead; Marine gastropods; Mercury; Toxic trace elements; Tunicates

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; ECHINODERMATA; ECHINOIDEA; GASTROPODA; HALIOTIDAE; HOLOTHUROIDEA; MUREX; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 78649857727     PISSN: 09567135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2010.09.021     Document Type: Article

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