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Effect of home processing methods on the levels of heavy metal contaminants in four food crops grown in and around two mining towns in Ghana

Unregulated small-scale mining activities, by young untrained men using some poisonous chemicals, occur in several agricultural forest belts in Ghana. These activities contaminate water bodies in these areas, which happen to be the main farming sites where food crops are intensively cultivated. The...

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Autores principales: Adjei-Mensah, Rebecca, Ofori, Hayford, Tortoe, Charles, Torgbor Johnson, Paa-Nii, Aryee, David, Kofi Frimpong, Samuel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8591352/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34815947
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.toxrep.2021.11.001