Assessing risk to human health from tropical leafy vegetables grown on contaminated urban soils

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 5338-5351

  Nabulo, G ^a   Young, S D ^a   Black, C R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human health; Risk assessment; Trace metals; Tropical leafy vegetables

Indexed keywords

AMARANTHUS; CADMIUM UPTAKE; CLEAN WATERS; CONTAMINATED SITES; CONTAMINATED SOILS; CUCURBITA MAXIMA; EFFLUENT DISCHARGE; HUMAN HEALTH; LEAFY VEGETABLES; METAL CONCENTRATIONS; PB AND CU; RISK TO HUMAN HEALTH; SITE-SPECIFIC; SOIL METALS; TRACE METAL; TRACE METAL CONCENTRATION; URBAN SOILS; VIGNA UNGUICULATA;

CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONTAMINATION; EFFLUENTS; HEALTH; HEALTH RISKS; LEAD; METALS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOILS; SOLID WASTES; TRACE ELEMENTS; TROPICS; VEGETABLES; WASTEWATER; ZINC;

SOIL POLLUTION;

CADMIUM; COPPER; LEAD; NICKEL; TRACE METAL;

BIOACCUMULATION; CADMIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COPPER; HEALTH RISK; LEAD; LEAFY VEGETABLE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; ZINC;

AMARANTHUS DUBIUS; AMARANTHUS HYBRIDUS; AMARANTHUS LIVIDUS; ARTICLE; CABBAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORCHORUS ESCULENTA; CORCHORUS OLITORIUS; COWPEA; GYNANDROPSIS GYNANDRA; HEALTH HAZARD; HISBISCUS CANNABIS; LEAFY VEGETABLE; NONHUMAN; PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOLANUM AETHIOPICUM; SOLANUM NIGRUM; SPINACH; SQUASH; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; CHILD; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; METALS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SOIL POLLUTANTS; VEGETABLES;

CENTRAL PROVINCE [UGANDA]; KAMPALA; UGANDA;

AMARANTHUS DUBIUS; CUCURBITA MAXIMA; GYNANDROPSIS GYNANDRA; VIGNA UNGUICULATA;

EID: 77956871991     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.06.034     Document Type: Article

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