Arsenic speciation and localization in horticultural produce grown in a historically impacted mining region

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 6164-6172

  Norton, Gareth ^a   Deacon, Claire ^a   Mestrot, Adrien ^a   Feldmann, Joerg ^a   Jenkins, Paul ^b   Baskaran, Christina ^b   Meharg, Andrew A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b FOOD STANDARDS AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC SPECIATION; FRUITS AND VEGETABLES; HORTICULTURAL PRODUCE; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROSCOPIES; INORGANIC ARSENIC; LEAF STRUCTURE; MARKET BASKET STUDY; TOTAL ARSENICS;

COMMERCE; FRUITS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; MASS SPECTROMETERS;

ARSENIC;

ARSENIC ACID;

ARSENIC; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELD SURVEY; HORTICULTURE; LEAF; POLLUTION MONITORING; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY);

ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; CARROT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FRUIT; HORTICULTURE; LEAF STRUCTURE; MINING; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT LEAF; POTATO; SOIL POLLUTION; UNITED KINGDOM; VEGETABLE;

ARSENIC; DAUCUS CAROTA; ENGLAND; FRUIT; MINING; SCOTLAND; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; VEGETABLES;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

BETA VULGARIS CICLA; DAUCUS CAROTA; LACTUCA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; SPINACIA OLERACEA;

EID: 84879196585     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es400720r     Document Type: Article

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