Arsenic Bioavailability, Bioaccessibility, And Speciation

Courtesy Recent Science Inventory records from the EPA  Tue, 11/24/2009 - 10:03

The term bioavailability has many different meanings across various disciplines. Often bioavailability is concerned with human health aspects such as the case of urban children interacting with contaminated soil.

The still utilized approach to base risk assessment on total metal content in soils is an outdated endeavor and has never been proven to be scientifically sound.

Yet to reverse this trend, much work is required to establish base-line bioavailability measurements and to develop complementary methods that are capable of predicting...

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