Market basket survey for chromium, copper, lead and cadmium in some vegetables from different shopping malls in Kolkata, India

Electronic Journal of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1190-1195

  Banerjee, Debopam ^a   Kuila, Prabir ^a   Ganguly, Anindita ^a   Ray, Lalitagauri ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Contamination; Fruits; Heavy metal; India; Shopping Malls; Vegetables

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649876237     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15794377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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