Dietary intake of radiocesium in adult residents in Fukushima prefecture and neighboring regions after the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident: 24-h food-duplicate survey in December 2011

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2520-2526

  Harada, Kouji H ^a   Fujii, Yukiko ^a   Adachi, Ayumu ^a   Tsukidate, Ayako ^b   Asai, Fumikazu ^b   Koizumi, Akio ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Asahi Shimbun   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIETARY EXPOSURE; DIETARY INTAKES; EXPOSURE ESTIMATES; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ACCIDENTS; GERMANIUM DETECTOR; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ACCIDENT; PROBABILITY SAMPLING; STEPWISE MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION;

ACCIDENTS; FRUITS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; NUTRITION; RADIOACTIVITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CESIUM;

CESIUM 134; CESIUM 137; GERMANIUM; POTASSIUM 40;

ADULT; CESIUM; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH RISK; NEIGHBORHOOD; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PUBLIC HEALTH; RADIONUCLIDE; RESIDENT POPULATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; APPLE; ARTICLE; CEREAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; EGG; FEMALE; FISH; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; FRUIT JUICE; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HUMAN; JAPAN; LENTINULA EDODES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAT; MILK; MUSHROOM; NUT; PERSIMMON; PLANT SEED; POTATO; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RICE; SEAWEED; SHELLFISH; SOYBEAN; VEGETABLE; WATER CONTENT;

ADULT; AGARICALES; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; EATING; FEMALE; FOOD ANALYSIS; FRUIT; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HUMANS; MALE; MEALS; MIDDLE AGED; POTASSIUM RADIOISOTOPES;

FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; TOHOKU;

EID: 84875353793     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es304128t     Document Type: Article

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