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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Main Authors: Rankin, Charley W., Nriagu, Jerome O., Aggarwal, Jugdeep K., Arowolo, Toyin A., Adebayo, Kola, Flegal, A. Russell
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences 2005
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Research
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1281277/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16203244
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.8009
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