Health Risk Assessment of Consumption of Heavy Metals in Market Food Crops from Sialkot and Gujranwala Districts, Pakistan

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 327-337

  Khan, Muhammad Usman ^a   Malik, Riffat Naseem ^a   Muhammad, Said ^b   Ullah, Faizan ^c   Qadir, Abdul ^d  

^a QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b Tobe Camp University Road Abbottabad   (Pakistan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

daily intake of metal; heavy metals; human health risk; market food crops

Indexed keywords

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 85027949964     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807039.2014.913445     Document Type: Article

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