Heavy metals in aromatic spices by inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry

Food Additives and Contaminants: Part B Surveillance

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 210-216

  Bua, Daniel Giuseppe ^a   Annuario, Giovanni ^a   Albergamo, Ambrogina ^a   Cicero, Nicola ^a   Dugo, Giacomo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Heavy metals; ICP MS; risk assessment; spices; trace elements

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; FOOD PRODUCTS; HEAVY METALS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LEAD; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECTROMETRY; SPICE;

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATIONS; HEAVY METAL CONTENTS; ICP-MS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRIES (ICPMS); LOWER CONFIDENCE LIMIT; PROVISIONAL TOLERABLE WEEKLY INTAKES; TOLERABLE WEEKLY INTAKES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; ARSENIC; HEAVY METAL; POLLUTANT;

ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANALYSIS; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CALIBRATION; ECONOMICS; EUROPEAN UNION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD CONTROL; HUMAN; HYDROLYSIS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ITALY; LAW; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; POLLUTANT; PROCEDURES; RADIATION RESPONSE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPICE; STANDARDS; TOXICITY; UNITED NATIONS; VALIDATION STUDY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANALYTIC SAMPLE PREPARATION METHODS; ARSENIC; CALIBRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; EUROPEAN UNION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INSPECTION; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; HYDROLYSIS; INTERNATIONALITY; ITALY; LEGISLATION, FOOD; LIMIT OF DETECTION; METALS, HEAVY; MICROWAVES; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; SPICES; UNITED NATIONS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84969143028     PISSN: 19393210     EISSN: 19393229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19393210.2016.1175516     Document Type: Article

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