Determination of nitrate and nitrite exposure and their health risk assessment in 21 brands of bottled waters in Isfahan’s market in 2013

International Journal of Environmental Health Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 71-75

  Moazeni, Malihe ^a   Ebrahimi, Afshin ^a   Atefi, Maryam ^a   Mahaki, Behzad ^a   Rastegari, Hossein Ali ^a  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bottled water; brand; health risk assessment; nitrate; nitrite

Indexed keywords

EID: 85041390232     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22779183     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/2277-9183.139747     Document Type: Article

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