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Ecology of Food and Nutrition Volume 35, 1996 - Issue 2
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Risk assessment of the consumption of a pyrrolizidine alkaloid containing indigenous vegetable crotalaria brevidens (mitoo)

Febronia C. Uiso School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, McGill University, Macdonald Campus, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, Canada, H9X 3V9; Institute of Traditional Medicine, Muhimbili Medical Centre, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Timothy Johns School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, Centre for Nutrition and the Environment of Indigenous Peoples, McGill University, Macdonald Campus of, Ste Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, H9X 3V9, Canada
Pages 111-119 | Received 02 Mar 1994, Accepted 31 Oct 1995, Published online: 31 Aug 2010

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