Bioaccumulation of antimony and arsenic in vegetables and health risk assessment in the superlarge antimony-mining area, China

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

Volumn 2015, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Zeng, Defang ^a   Zhou, Saijun ^a,b   Ren, Bozhi ^b   Chen, Tengshu ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HUNAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY DERIVATIVE; ARSENIC DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CARROT; CELERY CABBAGE; CHINA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORIANDER; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MINING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; VEGETABLE; WELSH ONION;

EID: 84942279316     PISSN: 20908865     EISSN: 20908873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2015/909724     Document Type: Article

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