Metals in organic and conventional wheat flours determined by an optimised and validated ICP-MS method

International Journal of Food Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1777-1783

  Vrček, Valerije ^a   Vinković Vrček, Ivana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Cereals and grains; Heavy metals; Inductively coupled plasma; Mass spectrometry; Minerals; Organic foods

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES; METAL CONTENT; MULTI-ELEMENT; MULTIELEMENT DETERMINATION; ORGANIC FOODS; SAFETY LIMITS; TOXIC METALS; WHEAT FLOURS;

CADMIUM; CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; CHROMIUM; HEAVY METALS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; LEAD; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METALS; MINERALS; MOLYBDENUM;

ORGANIC MINERALS;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84864001132     PISSN: 09505423     EISSN: 13652621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2621.2012.03034.x     Document Type: Article

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