Health risk assessment of heavy metals in rice to the population in Zhejiang, China.

Environmental pollution with toxic heavy metals can lead to the possible contamination of the rice. Selected metals (As, Cd, Hg and Pb) and their accumulation in rice collected from Zhejiang, China were analyzed to evaluate the potential health risk to the local adults and children. The mean levels...

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Main Authors: Zhu Huang, Xiao-Dong Pan, Ping-Gu Wu, Jian-Long Han, Qing Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3765370?pdf=render