Home gardening near a mining site in an arsenic-endemic region of Arizona: Assessing arsenic exposure dose and risk via ingestion of home garden vegetables, soils, and water

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 454-455, Issue , 2013, Pages 373-382

  Ramirez Andreotta, Monica D ^a   Brusseau, Mark L ^a   Beamer, Paloma ^a   Maier, Raina M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Exposure assessment; Home gardening; Mining waste; Risk characterization; Vegetables

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC EXPOSURE; EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; HAZARD QUOTIENTS; HOME GARDENING; MINING WASTE; RESIDENTIAL SOIL; RISK CHARACTERIZATION; VEGETABLE SAMPLES;

GREENHOUSES; HEALTH RISKS; HOUSING; SOILS; VEGETABLES;

ARSENIC;

ARSENIC;

ARSENIC; CANCER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; ESTIMATION METHOD; GUIDELINE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEALTH RISK; HOME GARDEN; MINE WASTE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SOIL POLLUTION;

AMARANTHACEAE; ARTICLE; ASTERACEAE; BRASSICACEAE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CUCURBITACEAE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FABACEAE; GARDENING; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GREENHOUSE; LILIACEAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOLANACEAE; UNITED STATES; VEGETABLE; WATER ANALYSIS;

ARIZONA; ARSENIC; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GARDENING; HUMANS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VEGETABLES;

ARIZONA; UNITED STATES;

AMARANTHACEAE; ASTERACEAE; BRASSICACEAE; CUCURBITACEAE; FABACEAE; LILIACEAE; SOLANACEAE;

EID: 84875845409     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.02.063     Document Type: Article

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