Assessing and managing the health risk due to ingestion of inorganic arsenic from fish and shellfish farmed in blackfoot disease areas for general Taiwanese

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 186, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 622-628

  Liang, Ching Ping ^a   Liu, Chen Wuing ^b   Jang, Cheng Shin ^c   Wang, Sheng Wei ^d   Lee, Jin Jing ^e  

^a FOOYIN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c KAINAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d Agricultural Engineering Research Center Chungli   (Taiwan)

^e Environmental Protection Administration Taiwan   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Consumption rate; Fish and shellfish; Groundwater; Risk

Indexed keywords

BLACKFOOT DISEASE; CONSUMPTION RATE; CONSUMPTION RATES; CRASSOSTREA GIGAS; DAILY INTAKE; GENERAL PUBLICS; GRAPHICAL MODEL; INORGANIC ARSENIC; INTEGRATED RISKS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PARAMETER UNCERTAINTY; RISK ZONES; RISK-BASED; RISK-BASED MANAGEMENTS; SEAFOOD CONSUMPTION; TARGET CANCER RISKS;

ARSENIC; BIOMARKERS; FISH; GROUNDWATER; HEALTH; PUBLIC RISKS; RATING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHELLFISH; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

HEALTH RISKS;

ARSENIC; INORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARSENIC; ASSESSMENT METHOD; DISEASE PREVALENCE; FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL ORGANIZATION; HEALTH RISK; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHELLFISH; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ARTICLE; BLACKFOOT DISEASE; CANCER RISK; CHANOS CHANOS; CONTAMINATED FISH; CONTAMINATED SHELLFISH; CRASSOSTREA GIGAS; FISH; FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MERETRIX LUSORIA; MUGIL CEPHALUS; NONHUMAN; OREOCHROMIS MOSSAMBICUS; OYSTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; TAIWAN; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANIMALS; ARSENIC; DIET; ENDEMIC DISEASES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INORGANIC CHEMICALS; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SEAFOOD; SHELLFISH; TAIWAN;

TAIWAN;

BIVALVIA; CHANOS CHANOS; CRASSOSTREA GIGAS; MERETRIX LUSORIA; MUGIL CEPHALUS; OREOCHROMIS MOSSAMBICUS; OSTREIDAE; TILAPIA;

EID: 79551564506     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2010.11.042     Document Type: Article

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