Health risk assessment and multivariate apportionment of trace metals in wild leafy vegetables from Lesser Himalayas, Pakistan

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 92, Issue , 2013, Pages 237-244

  Abbasi, Arshad Mehmood ^a   Iqbal, Javed ^a   Khan, Mir Ajab ^a   Shah, Munir H ^a  

^a QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Accumulation factor; Hazard quotient; Risk assessment; Soil; Statistical analysis; Trace metal; Vegetable

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; IRON; LEAD; MANGANESE; TRACE METAL; ZINC;

CARCINOGEN; FOOD CONSUMPTION; HEALTH RISK; LEAFY VEGETABLE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRACE METAL;

AMARANTHUS VIRIDIS; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONVOLVULUS; CONVOLVULUS ARVENSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH HAZARD; LEAFY VEGETABLE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PAKISTAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOLANUM NIGRUM; STELLARIA; STELLARIA MEDIA; WILD PLANT;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; METALS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PAKISTAN; PLANT LEAVES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; VEGETABLES;

HIMALAYAS; LESSER HIMALAYAS;

AMARANTHUS VIRIDIS; CONVOLVULUS ARVENSIS; SOLANUM NIGRUM; STELLARIA MEDIA;

EID: 84876988839     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2013.02.011     Document Type: Article

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