Impact of soil particle size and bioaccessibility on children and adult lead exposure in peri-urban contaminated soils

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 186, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 1870-1879

  Juhasz, Albert L ^a,b   Weber, John ^a,b   Smith, Euan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b University of South Australia and CRC for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bioaccessibility; Exposure; Lead; Particle size; SBRC

Indexed keywords

BIOACCESSIBILITY; BULK SOILS; CONTAMINATED SOILS; EXPOSURE; LEAD ENRICHMENT; LEAD EXPOSURE; PARTICLE-SIZE FRACTIONS; PB CONCENTRATION; SBRC; SOIL PARTICLE SIZE;

LEAD; PARTICLE SIZE; SOIL MECHANICS; SOILS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

LEAD;

ADULT; BIOAVAILABILITY; CHILD; LEAD; PARTICLE SIZE; PERIURBAN AREA; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL TEST;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CALCULATION; CHILD; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; SOIL POLLUTION; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FIREARMS; HUMANS; INCINERATION; INDUSTRY; LEAD; METALLURGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; STOMACH; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 79751528004     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2010.12.095     Document Type: Article

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