Lead contamination in cocoa and cocoa products: isotopic evidence of global contamination.

Autor: Rankin CW; Environmental Toxicology, WIGS,University of California, Santa Cruz, California, USA. rankin@etox.ucsc.edu, Nriagu JO, Aggarwal JK, Arowolo TA, Adebayo K, Flegal AR
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Environmental health perspectives [Environ Health Perspect] 2005 Oct; Vol. 113 (10), pp. 1344-8.
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.8009
Abstrakt: In this article we present lead concentrations and isotopic compositions from analyses of cocoa beans, their shells, and soils from six Nigerian cocoa farms, and analyses of manufactured cocoa and chocolate products. The average lead concentration of cocoa beans was
Databáze: MEDLINE