Heavy Metal Contaminations in Herbal Medicines: Determination, Comprehensive Risk Assessments, and Solutions

• Main Authors: Lu Luo (Author), Bo Wang (Author), Jingwen Jiang (Author), Martin Fitzgerald (Author), Qin Huang (Author), Zheng Yu (Author), Hui Li (Author), Jiqing Zhang (Author), Jianhe Wei (Author), Chenyuyan Yang (Author), Hui Zhang (Author), Linlin Dong (Author), Shilin Chen (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Heavy metal contamination in herbal medicines is a global threat to human beings especially at levels above known threshold concentrations. The concentrations of five heavy metals cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), arsenic (As), mercury (Hg) and copper (Cu) were investigated using Inductively Coupled Plasma O...