Risk assessment and monitoring programme of nitrates through vegetables in the Region of Valencia (Spain)

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 100, Issue , 2017, Pages 42-49

  Quijano, Leyre ^a   Yusà, Vicent ^a,b   Font, Guillermina ^a   McAllister, Claudia ^b   Torres, Concepción ^c   Pardo, Olga ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b Center for Public Health Research CSISP   (Spain)

^c Public Health Laboratory of Valencia   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dietary exposure; Estimated intake; Nitrate; Risk assessment; Vegetables

Indexed keywords

NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ACCEPTABLE DAILY INTAKE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICHOKE; ARTICLE; CARROT; CHILD; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EXPOSURE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; ICEBERG LETTUCE; LETTUCE; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL PARAMETERS; POTATO; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPAIN; SPINACH; SWISS CHARD; VEGETABLE; VEGETARIAN; ANALYSIS; BODY WEIGHT; DIET; DRUG EFFECTS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; DIET; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NITRATES; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPAIN; VEGETABLES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85006467120     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: 18736351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2016.12.010     Document Type: Article

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