Risk assessment of potentially toxic elements in agricultural soils and maize tissues from selected districts in Tanzania

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 416, Issue , 2012, Pages 180-186

  Marwa, Ernest M M ^a   Meharg, Andrew A ^a   Rice, Clive M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Maize; Potentially toxic elements; Soil; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL SOILS; ANIMAL CONSUMPTION; FIELD SURVEYS; MAIZE; POTENTIALLY TOXIC ELEMENTS; TANZANIA; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; ARSENIC; CHROMIUM; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); HISTOLOGY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; LEAD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOILS; TISSUE; TOXIC MATERIALS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

ARSENIC; CHROMIUM; LEAD; NICKEL;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; ARSENIC; CHROMIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); LEAD; MAIZE; NICKEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXIC MATERIAL;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GRAIN; GROWTH RATE; HEALTH HAZARD; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAIZE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PHYTOTOXICITY; PLANT ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; PLANT TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SHOOT GROWTH; SOIL POLLUTION; STANDARDIZATION; TANZANIA;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ARSENIC; CHROMIUM; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; LEAD; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; NICKEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TANZANIA; ZEA MAYS;

TANZANIA;

ANIMALIA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84856228654     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.11.089     Document Type: Article

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