Heavy metal contamination in leafy vegetables and health risk assessment / Norfarazatul Sahrina Bolhassan

• Main Author: Bolhassan, Norfarazatul Sahrina
• Format: Student Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine; Vegetables; Metallurgy
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/60940/1/60940.PDF; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/60940/

Introduction: Vegetables are needed in human diet and high consumed by Malaysian. However, vegetables may contain both essential and toxic elements, such as heavy metals, at a wide range of concentrations. Consumption of toxic heavy metals in unsafe concentrations through vegetables may lead to accu...