Metals pollution and human bioaccessibility of topsoils in Grugliasco (Italy)

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 680-689

  Poggio, Laura ^a   Vrščaj, Borut ^b   Schulin, Rainer ^a   Hepperle, Erwin ^a   Ajmone Marsan, Franco ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF SLOVENIA   (Slovenia)

^c DiVaPRA Chimica Agraria   (Italy)

Author keywords

Heavy metals; Human bioaccessibility; Pedotransfer functions; Physiologically based extraction tests; Urban soils

Indexed keywords

BIOACCESSIBILITY; BIOACCESSIBLE; CASE STUDIES; HUMAN BIOACCESSIBILITY; HUMAN BODIES; METAL CONTAMINATIONS; METAL CONTENTS; NORTHERN ITALY; ORGANIC MATTERS; PEDOTRANSFER FUNCTIONS; PHYSIOLOGICALLY BASED EXTRACTION TESTS; POLLUTED SOILS; SOIL METALS; SOIL PARAMETERS; SOIL PROPERTIES; SOIL TEXTURES; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT MODELS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; URBAN SOILS;

CHROMIUM; COPPER; GEOLOGIC MODELS; HEALTH RISKS; HEAVY METALS; LEAD; METAL RECOVERY; METALS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; RISK PERCEPTION; SOIL TESTING; SOILS; ZINC;

SOIL POLLUTION;

CHROMIUM; COPPER; LEAD; NICKEL; ZINC;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOAVAILABILITY; EXTRACTION METHOD; HEALTH RISK; HEAVY METAL; PEDOTRANSFER FUNCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL TEXTURE; TOPSOIL;

ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; HEALTH HAZARD; ITALY; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SIMULATION; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL TEXTURE; URBAN AREA;

BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; ITALY; METALS, HEAVY; PLANTS; SOIL POLLUTANTS; URBAN HEALTH;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GRUGLIASCO; ITALY; PIEDMONT [ITALY]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TORINO [PIEDMONT];

EID: 57049085708     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2008.08.009     Document Type: Article

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