Background In recent decades, contaminations with heavy metals ions have adversely
affected the environment, food safety, and human health. Heavy metals, leaching to water …

Heavy metals (HM) can be accumulated along the food chain; their presence in food is a
global concern for human health because some of them are toxic even at low …

This paper investigated the health risks due to metal concentrations in soil and vegetables
from the island province in the Philippines and the potential ecological risks. The …

Plant-based foods satisfy more than 70% of the human energy and nutrition requirements.
However, such foods may be contaminated by heavy metal (loid) s. The dietary exposure to …

The world's population will be around 9 billion people by 2050. Humans need to feed in
order to survive and thus the high demographic growth may impact the sustainability of our …

The present study was performed to assess the level of biologically potent metallic elements
(Al, Cd, Cr, Cu, Hg, Mn, Pb and Zn), metalloid (As) and non-metal (Se) in different raw food …

Worldwide, large amounts of food are wasted every year. Reducing of food waste at
European level is taken very seriously and it has been adopted even a target of reducing the …

Heavy metals (HM) contamination in food products is a major risk to public health. Lebanon
is constantly suffering from unresolved environmental pollution issues, which have led to an …

This study was designed to investigate the toxic metal (aluminum (Al), arsenic (As),
chromium (Cr), cadmium (Cd), copper (Cu), nickel (Ni), lead (Pb), and zinc (Zn)) …

An uncontrolled industrialisation and urbanisation have caused environmental
contamination with toxic inorganic and organic substances. The enormous release of …