Arsenic and heavy metal contents in white rice samples from rainfed paddy fields in Yangon division, Myanmar-Natural background levels?

The presence of potentially toxic metal(loid)s (As, Pb, Cd, Cr, Mn, Fe, Zn, Cu, Ni, Mo and Co) in 120 white (polished) rice grains (Oryza sativa; 2017 or earlier crop) purchased from farmers in the five most agriculturally active townships near Yangon in the eastern edge on Ayeyarwady Delta was dete...

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Main Authors: Aye Myint Myat Soe, Aye Aye Mu, Kazuhiro Toyoda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283420