Health risks to children and adults residing in riverine environments where surficial sediments contain metals generated by active gold mining in Ghana

Toxicological Research

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 69-79

  Armah, Frederick Ato ^a   Gyeabour, Elvis Kyere ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST   (Ghana)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Central tendency exposure; Chemometric assessment; Gold mining; Human health risk; Metals; Reasonable maximum exposure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880631236     PISSN: 19768257     EISSN: 22342753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5487/TR.2013.29.1.069     Document Type: Article

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