Levels of arsenic pollution in daily foodstuffs and soils and its associated human health risk in a town in Jiangsu Province, China

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 122, Issue , 2015, Pages 198-204

  Jiang, Yanxue ^a   Zeng, Xiancai ^a   Fan, Xiaoting ^a   Chao, Sihong ^a   Zhu, Meilin ^a,b   Cao, Hongbin ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NINGXIA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Foodstuffs; Health risk; Monte Carlo simulation; Soils

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; INORGANIC COMPOUND; POLLUTANT; SOIL;

ARSENIC; CARCINOGEN; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECOTOXICOLOGY; HEALTH RISK; INGESTION RATE; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENICITY; CHILD; CHINA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CRAB; DRY WEIGHT; EGG; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FISH; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; FRESH WEIGHT; FRUIT; GENDER; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL AREA; INGESTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORK; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; SHRIMP; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTION; VEGETABLE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; FABACEAE; ORYZA; POLLUTANT; RED MEAT; SEA FOOD;

CHINA; JIANGSU;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ARSENIC; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; EGGS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FABACEAE; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FRUIT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORYZA; RED MEAT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEAFOOD; SOIL; VEGETABLES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84938694474     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2015.07.018     Document Type: Article

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