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Lead Contamination in Cocoa and Cocoa Products: Isotopic Evidence of Global Contamination

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 ≤ 0.5 ng/g, which is one of the l...

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Autores principales: Rankin, Charley W., Nriagu, Jerome O., Aggarwal, Jugdeep K., Arowolo, Toyin A., Adebayo, Kola, Flegal, A. Russell
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1281277/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16203244
http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.8009