Assessment of natural radioactivity in maize and estimation of concomitant dose to nigerian via ingestion pathway

• Main Authors: Yarima, Mudassir Hassan, Khandaker, Mayeen Uddin, Nadhiya, Aishath, Olatunji, Michael Adekunle
• Format: Article
• Published: Oxford University Press 2019
• Subjects: Q Science (General); QC Physics
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/23120/; https://doi.org/10.1093/rpd/ncz115
• Institution: Universiti Malaya

Uranium, thorium and potassium are the most abundant naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORMs) found in soils and other environmental media including foodstuffs. Since the human exposures to NORMs is an unavoidable phenomenon, in such a way that they can easily find their way to human being...