Presence of nitrate and nitrite in vegetables grown for self-consumption

Farmacia

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 530-533

  Croitoru, Mircea Dumitru ^a   Fülöp, Ibolya ^a   Miklos, Amalia ^a   Hosszú, Barnabás ^a   Tătar, Victoria Laura ^a   Muntean, Daniela Lucia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Lettuce; Nitrate; Nitrite; Vegetables

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; NITRITE;

ARTICLE; BEETROOT; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LEAF LETTUCE; LIMIT OF DETECTION; NONHUMAN; PARSLEY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADISH; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; VEGETABLE BREEDING;

EID: 84938560697     PISSN: 00148237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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