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Arumugam, A., Li, J., Krishnamurthy, P. et al. Response to “Refer to the investigation of toxic elements in Carassius gibelio and Sinanodonta woodiana and its health risk to humans by Arumugam et al. (2020)” by Fakhri and Mousavi Khaneghah (2020). Environ Sci Pollut Res 28, 4883–4884 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-10695-2
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