Uranium in food and water: Actual and potential effects

Reviews in Food and Nutrition Toxicity

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 85-92

  Baratta, Edmond J ^a  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

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