INTRODUCTION Food-borne infections and intoxications remain one of the most important public health issues globally, both in developing and in developed countries. Numbers of reported outbreaks of food-borne diseases and diseased people are constantly growing. For instance, a total of 320,000 of cases of food-borne diseases, caused by only 6 most prevalent bacterial pathogens (non-typhoidal Sal...

forty seven sediment cores recovered from the south china sea coasts along the east coast of peninsular malaysia were analysed for as, cd, cr, cu, hg, ni, pb and zn using instrumental neutron activation analysis. the results indicate a homogeneous distribution except for as and pb in all stations. assessment of heavy metal pollution in marine sediments requires knowledge of pre-anthropogenic me...