A human health risk assessment of soil and crops contaminated by heavy metals in industrial regions, central Iran

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 153-167

  Moradi, Anahita ^a   Honarjoo, Naser ^a   Najafi, Payam ^a   Fallahzade, Jaber ^a  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

bio accumulation factor; contamination load index; estimated daily intake; health risk; heavy metal pollution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949321335     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807039.2015.1056293     Document Type: Article

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