Arsenic speciation in australian-grown and imported rice on sale in Australia: Implications for human health risk

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 62, Issue 25, 2014, Pages 6016-6024

  Rahman, M Azizur ^a   Rahman, Mohammad Mahmudur ^b,c   Reichman, Suzie M ^d   Lim, Richard P ^a   Naidu, Ravi ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c University of South Australia and CRC for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment   (Australia)

^d RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

arsenic speciation; dietary intake; human health; rice; risk assessment

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; NUTRITION; RISK ASSESSMENT; CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; HEALTH;

ARSENIC SPECIATION; CONSUMPTION RATES; DIETARY INTAKES; DIMETHYLARSINIC ACIDS; HUMAN HEALTH; HUMAN HEALTH RISKS; RICE; TOLERABLE DAILY INTAKE;

CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; HEALTH RISKS;

ARSENIC; SOIL POLLUTANT;

ANALYSIS; AUSTRALIA; CHEMISTRY; ECONOMICS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD SAFETY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PRODUCT SAFETY; RICE; SOIL POLLUTANT; STANDARDS;

ARSENIC; AUSTRALIA; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD SAFETY; HUMANS; ORYZA SATIVA; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84903291559     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: 15205118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf501077w     Document Type: Article

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