Quantification of PAHs and health risk via ingestion of vegetable in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 497-498, Issue , 2014, Pages 448-458

  Waqas, Muhammad ^a,b   Khan, Sardar ^a,b   Chao, Cai ^a   Shamshad, Isha ^b   Qamar, Zahir ^b   Khan, Kifayatullah ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PESHAWAR   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Accumulation; Daily intake; Health risk; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; Vegetable; Wastewater irrigation

Indexed keywords

HEALTH RISKS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NAPHTHALENE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; PYRENE; SOILS;

ACCUMULATION; ACENAPHTHYLENE; DAILY INTAKE; FLUORANTHENE; LEAFY VEGETABLES; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS (PAHS); WASTEWATER IRRIGATION;

VEGETABLES;

ACENAPHTHYLENE; ACENATHPHENE; ANTHRACENE; BENZO[A]PYRENE; BENZO[B]ANTHRACENE; BENZO[B]FLUORANTHENE; BENZO[GHI]PERYLENE; BENZO[K]FLUORANTHENE; CHRYSENE; DIBENZ[A,H]ANTHRACENE; FLUORANTHENE; FLUORINE; INDENO[1,2,3 CD]PYRENE; NAPHTHALENE; PHENANTHRENE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; PYRENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT;

BIOACCUMULATION; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FOOD CONSUMPTION; HEALTH RISK; PAH; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL QUALITY; VEGETABLE; WASTEWATER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CHILD; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LEAFY VEGETABLE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PAKISTAN; POLLUTION MONITORING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; VEGETABLE; WASTE WATER; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

KHYBER-PAKHTUNKHWA; PAKISTAN; PESHAWAR;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; PAKISTAN; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; VEGETABLES;

EID: 84906690372     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.07.128     Document Type: Article

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