Dietary risk of milk contaminated with lead and cadmium in areas near mining-metallurgical industries in the Central Andes of Peru

Dietary risk of milk contaminated with lead and cadmium in areas near mining-metallurgical industries in the Central Andes of Peru

The mining-metallurgical industry in the central Andes of Peru is a source of lead (Pb) and cadmium (Cd) contamination in milk, and there are no studies on the impact of their ingestion. Using flame atomic absorption spectrometry, we quantified the concentration of these metals in raw milk produced...

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Main Authors: Jorge Castro-Bedriñana, Doris Chirinos-Peinado, Elva Ríos-Ríos, María Machuca-Campuzano, Elvis Gómez-Ventura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-09-01
Series:Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
Subjects:
Dietary exposure
Milk intake
Risk assessment
Risk ratio
Mineral-metallurgical emissions
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147651321004942

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