Lead in New York City community garden chicken eggs: Influential factors and health implications

Environmental Geochemistry and Health

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 633-649

  Spliethoff, Henry M ^a   Mitchell, Rebecca G ^a   Ribaudo, Lisa N ^a   Taylor, Owen ^b   Shayler, Hannah A ^c   Greene, Virginia ^d   Oglesby, Debra ^d  

^a NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b Just Food   (United States)

^c Cornell Waste Management Institute Department of Crop and Soil Sciences Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^d NY State Dept of Agric and Markets   (United States)

Author keywords

Chicken eggs; Community gardens; Exposure assessment; Lead (Pb) exposure; Urban agriculture

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EGG; HEALTH RISK; LEAD; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POULTRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; URBAN AGRICULTURE;

NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

GALLUS GALLUS;

LEAD; SOIL POLLUTANT;

ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CHICKEN; EGG; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOIL POLLUTANT; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; EGGS; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; LEAD; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEW YORK CITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84903141561     PISSN: 02694042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10653-013-9586-z     Document Type: Article

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