[HTML][HTML] Chemical pollution: A growing peril and potential catastrophic risk to humanity

R Naidu, B Biswas, IR Willett, J Cribb, BK Singh… - Environment …, 2021 - Elsevier
Anthropogenic chemical pollution has the potential to pose one of the largest environmental
threats to humanity, but global understanding of the issue remains fragmented. This article …

[HTML][HTML] Heavy metals in food crops: Health risks, fate, mechanisms, and management

PK Rai, SS Lee, M Zhang, YF Tsang, KH Kim - Environment international, 2019 - Elsevier
Food security is a high-priority issue for sustainable global development both quantitatively
and qualitatively. In recent decades, adverse effects of unexpected contaminants on crop …

Phytoremediation of toxic metals present in soil and water environment: a critical review

VS Kanwar, A Sharma, AL Srivastav, L Rani - Environmental Science and …, 2020 - Springer
Heavy metals are one of the most hazardous inorganic contaminants of both water and soil
environment composition. Normally, heavy metals are non-biodegradable in nature because …

Biological Properties of Vitamins of the B-Complex, Part 1: Vitamins B1, B2, B3, and B5

M Hrubša, T Siatka, I Nejmanová, M Vopršalová… - Nutrients, 2022 - mdpi.com
This review summarizes the current knowledge on essential vitamins B1, B2, B3, and B5.
These B-complex vitamins must be taken from diet, with the exception of vitamin B3, that can …

Occurrence of trace metals in foodstuffs and their health impact

AA El-Kady, MA Abdel-Wahhab - Trends in food science & technology, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Unlike organic pollutants, heavy metals are not created nor are biodegradable
materials. They naturally occur in earth crust and many of them reach the environment via …

Heavy metals risks in plant foods–need to step up precautionary measures

OJ Afonne, EC Ifediba - Current opinion in toxicology, 2020 - Elsevier
Plant foods have been a major source of human sustenance from the primeval ages, and
have continued to do so in recent times. Unfortunately, this food subgroup represents a …

Chronic dietary exposure to inorganic arsenic

European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)… - EFSA …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Following an official request to EFSA from the European Commission, EFSA assessed the
chronic dietary exposure to inorganic arsenic (iA s) in the European population. A total of …

The evaluation of arsenic contamination potential, speciation and hydrogeochemical behaviour in aquifers of Punjab, Pakistan

MB Shakoor, I Bibi, NK Niazi, M Shahid, MF Nawaz… - Chemosphere, 2018 - Elsevier
In this study, we tested 123 groundwater wells from five different areas of Punjab, Pakistan
for arsenic (As) contamination level and species, as well as delineated hydrogeochemical …

Arsenic contamination status in Europe, Australia, and other parts of the world

G Medunić, Ž Fiket, M Ivanić - Arsenic in Drinking Water and Food, 2020 - Springer
This chapter presents latest research in Australia, Europe, and other parts of the world on
environmental issues related to As, particularly in water, but the viewpoints of food, health …

Flow of arsenic between rice grain and water: Its interaction, accumulation and distribution in different fractions of cooked rice

NR Chowdhury, A Das, M Joardar, A De… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Arsenic (As) contaminated water is a major threat to human health when used for drinking,
cooking and irrigational purposes. Rice being consumed by 50% of the world's population …