Risk of human exposure to arsenic and other toxic elements from geophagy: Trace element analysis of baked clay using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Al Rmalli, Shaban W ^a   Jenkins, Richard O ^a   Watts, Michael J ^b   Haris, Parvez I ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; DRINKING WATER; IRON; LEAD; MANGANESE; ZINC; ALUMINUM SILICATE; HEAVY METAL; METALLOID;

ARSENIC; BIOAVAILABILITY; CADMIUM; CLAY; DRINKING WATER; GEOPHAGY; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HEALTH RISK; LEAD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; POPULATION SIZE; PREGNANCY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); TOXIC MATERIAL;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; BANGLADESH; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLAY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEATING; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MICROWAVE COOKING; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER CONTAMINATION; CHEMISTRY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PICA; PREGNANCY; UNITED KINGDOM;

BANGLADESH; UNITED KINGDOM;

ALUMINUM SILICATES; ARSENIC; BANGLADESH; CADMIUM; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEAD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METALLOIDS; METALS, HEAVY; PICA; PREGNANCY;

EID: 78650388502     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-9-79     Document Type: Article

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