Regional assessment of cadmium pollution in agricultural lands and the potential health risk related to intensive mining activities: A case study in Chenzhou City, China

Journal of Environmental Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 696-703

  ZHAI, Limei ^a,b   LIAO, Xiaoyong ^a   CHEN, Tongbin ^a   YAN, Xiulan ^a   XIE, Hua ^a   WU, Bin ^a   WANG, Lixia ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

cadmium; health risk; mining activities; rice; soil contamination; vegetable

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; CADMIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; GIS; HEALTH RISK; MINING; RICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; VEGETABLE;

ADULT; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; CROP; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN; MINING; POLLUTION; RICE; RISK FACTOR; SOIL POLLUTANT; VEGETABLE;

ADULT; AGRICULTURE; CADMIUM; CHINA; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; HUMANS; MINING; ORYZA SATIVA; RISK FACTORS; SOIL POLLUTANTS; VEGETABLES;

ASIA; BAOSHAN; CHENZHOU; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HUNAN; SHANGHAI;

EID: 45149106834     PISSN: 10010742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1001-0742(08)62115-4     Document Type: Article

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