Protecting Children From Pesticides and Other Toxic Chemicals
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Pesticides and toxic chemicals
‘Contamination’ is a comparative term. In Britain at least, contaminants are trace substances; in the context of food they are distinguished from additives by whether or not there is an intention that the substances should be present when the food is consumed or prepared for consumption. Contaminants may be of natural or of technological origin: and technological contaminants may be direct or i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1559-0631,1559-064X
DOI: 10.1038/jes.2011.1