In search of “just right”: The challenge of regulating arsenic in rice

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2015, Pages A17-A19

  Schmidt, Charles W ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC;

ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; FOOD; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; ORYZA; STANDARDS; UNITED NATIONS; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ARSENIC; FOOD; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; ORYZA; UNITED NATIONS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84920089177     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.123-A16     Document Type: Note

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