Lead concentration in meat from lead-killed moose and predicted human exposure using Monte Carlo simulation

Food Additives and Contaminants - Part A

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1052-1057

  Lindboe, M ^a   Henrichsen, E N ^a   Hogasen H R ^b   Bernhoft, A ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Exposure modelling; Lead; Meat; Metals analysis AAS

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; AMMUNITION; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; HEALTH RISKS; LEAD; LEAD METALLOGRAPHY; MEATS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; EUROPEAN FOOD SAFETY AUTHORITIES; EXPOSURE MODELLING; LIMIT OF QUANTIFICATIONS; METALS ANALYSIS; PROVISIONAL TOLERABLE WEEKLY INTAKES; WOMEN OF CHILD-BEARING AGES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION;

LEAD;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD SAFETY; HUMAN; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MEAT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOOSE; NORWAY; PORTION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ANIMAL; DEER; FOOD CONTAMINATION;

ALCES ALCES;

ANIMALS; DEER; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; LEAD; MEAT; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

EID: 84866770086     PISSN: 19440049     EISSN: 14645122     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19440049.2012.680201     Document Type: Article

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