Health risks of heavy metals to the general public in Hengyang, China, via consumption of rice

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1636-1650

  Dai, Hongwen ^a,b   Song, Xiuxian ^a   Huang, Baifei ^a   Xin, Junliang ^a  

^a HUNAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; heavy metal; Hengyang; polished rice; risk assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84981717440     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807039.2016.1207156     Document Type: Article

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