Arsenic exposure via contaminated water and food sources

K Khosravi-Darani, Y Rehman, IA Katsoyiannis… - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
Arsenic poisoning constitutes a major threat to humans, causing various health problems.
Almost everywhere across the world certain “hotspots” have been detected, putting in …

Heavy metal pollution in the environment and its impact on health: exploring green technology for remediation

S Das, KW Sultana, AR Ndhlala… - Environmental …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Along with expanding urbanization and industrialization, environmental pollution which
negatively affects the surroundings, has been rising quickly. As a result, induces heavy …

Investigation of heavy metal accumulation in vegetables and health risk to humans from their consumption

N Gupta, KK Yadav, V Kumar, S Prasad… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Heavy metals contamination of soil and edible parts of vegetables is presently a challenging
environmental issue worldwide. The present study determined the accumulated amount of …

Sources, effects and present perspectives of heavy metals contamination: Soil, plants and human food chain

PB Angon, MS Islam, S Kc, A Das, N Anjum, A Poudel… - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Heavy metal (HM) poisoning of agricultural soils poses a serious risk to plant life, human
health, and the global food supply. When HM levels in agricultural soils get to dangerous …

Heavy metals in widely consumed vegetables grown in industrial areas of Bangladesh: a potential human health hazard

FA Laboni, MW Ahmed, A Kaium, MK Alam… - … Trace Element Research, 2023 - Springer
The prevalence of heavy metals in frequently consumed vegetables constitutes a
considerable public health hazard. This study aims to determine the quantity of heavy metals …

Human health risk​ and receptor model-oriented sources of heavy metal pollution in commonly consume vegetable and fish species of high Ganges river floodplain …

TK Chakraborty, GC Ghosh, MR Hossain, MS Islam… - Heliyon, 2022 - cell.com
This study was intended to assess heavy metal contents and sources in commonly
consumed vegetables and fish collected from the Jashore district of Bangladesh and to …

Probabilistic health risk assessment of toxic metals in chickens from the largest production areas of Dhaka, Bangladesh

MM Haque, N Hossain, YN Jolly, SM Tareq - Environmental Science and …, 2021 - Springer
Chicken is one of the major protein sources and more affordable for the population of
Bangladesh. Its quality monitoring is of high priority for food safety and public health risk …

Trace elements in farmland soils and crops, and probabilistic health risk assessment in areas influenced by mining activity in Ecuador

P Romero-Crespo, S Jiménez-Oyola… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Consumption of food grown in contaminated soils may be a significant human exposure
pathway to pollutants, including toxic elements. This study aimed to investigate the pollution …

Distribution of cadmium in fresh vegetables marketed in Southeast China and its dietary exposure assessment

XD Pan, JL Han - Foods, 2023 - mdpi.com
This study investigated concentrations of cadmium (Cd) in 2465 vegetable samples (52
species) from 2018 to 2022 and estimated the associated health risk for local consumers …

Toxicity, arsenic speciation and characteristics of hyphenated techniques used for arsenic determination in vegetables. A review

BA Sadee, Y Galali, SMS Zebari - RSC advances, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Arsenic (As) speciation is an interesting topic because it is well recognized that the toxicity of
this metalloid ultimately depends on its chemical form. More than 300 arsenicals exist …