Multi-trace element levels and arsenic speciation in urine of e-waste recycling workers from Agbogbloshie, Accra in Ghana

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 424, Issue , 2012, Pages 63-73

  Asante, Kwadwo Ansong ^a,b   Agusa, Tetsuro ^a   Biney, Charles Augustus ^c   Agyekum, William Atuobi ^b   Bello, Mohammed ^b   Otsuka, Masanari ^a,d   Itai, Takaaki ^a   Takahashi, Shin ^a   Tanabe, Shinsuke ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CSIR WATER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ghana)

^c Volta Basin Authority (VBA)   (Burkina Faso)

^d EHIME PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agbogbloshie; As speciation; E waste; Ghana; Trace elements; Urine

Indexed keywords

AGBOGBLOSHIE; AS SPECIATION; E-WASTE; GHANA; URINE;

ARSENIC; BODY FLUIDS; LEAD; RECYCLING; TRACE ELEMENTS; WASTES;

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT;

ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; ARSENOBETAINE; CACODYLIC ACID; DRINKING WATER; IRON; LEAD; TRACE ELEMENT;

ARSENIC; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RECYCLING; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); TRACE ELEMENT; URINE; WASTE FACILITY;

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTAMINATION; ELECTRONIC WASTE; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMAN; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECYCLING; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; URINALYSIS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; WORKER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARSENIC; ARSENICALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DRINKING WATER; ELECTRONIC WASTE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METALS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RECYCLING; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; TRACE ELEMENTS; WATER QUALITY;

ACCRA; AGBOGBLOSHIE; GHANA; GREATER ACCRA;

EID: 84859753818     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.02.072     Document Type: Article

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