Health Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals in Soils and Vegetables from a Typical Greenhouse Vegetable Production System in China

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1264-1280

  Hu, Wenyou ^a   Chen, Yong ^a,b   Huang, Biao ^a   Niedermann, Silvana ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

dietary intake; greenhouse vegetable production; health risk assessment; heavy metals; transfer factor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897858191     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807039.2013.831267     Document Type: Article

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