Potential Exposure to Arsenic from Infant Rice Cereal

Annals of Global Health

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 221-224

  Carignan, Courtney C ^a,b,c   Punshon, Tracy ^a,b   Karagas, Margaret R ^a,d   Cottingham, Kathryn L ^a,b  

^a Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Center at Dartmouth   (United States)

^b Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

arsenic; environmental exposure; infant formula; rice cereal

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; TAP WATER;

ARSENIC POISONING; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BREAST MILK; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; INFANT; NOTE; RICE; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; BABY FOOD; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD GRAIN; ORYZA; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANIMALS; ARSENIC; EDIBLE GRAIN; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FOOD; MILK, HUMAN; ORYZA; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84991832997     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22149996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aogh.2016.01.020     Document Type: Note

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