Trace metals in soil and vegetables and associated health risk assessment

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 186, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 8727-8739

  Islam, Md Saiful ^a,b   Ahmed, Md Kawser ^c   Habibullah Al Mamun, Md ^a,c   Masunaga, Shigeki ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b PATUAKHALI SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Agricultural land; Geochemical fractionation; Metal pollution; Risk assessment; Vegetable

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIOHAZARDS; CADMIUM; HAZARDS; HEALTH; HEALTH HAZARDS; HEALTH RISKS; LEAD; METALS; NICKEL; SOILS; TRACE ELEMENTS; VEGETABLES;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL SOILS; CONTAMINATION LEVELS; GEOCHEMICAL FRACTIONATIONS; METAL POLLUTION; RESIDUAL FRACTION; SEQUENTIAL EXTRACTION; TARGET HAZARD QUOTIENTS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; LEAD; NICKEL; TRACE METAL; HEAVY METAL; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIOACCUMULATION; CARCINOGEN; FRACTIONATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; HEALTH RISK; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; TRACE METAL; URBAN POPULATION; VEGETABLE;

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENICITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH HAZARD; HIGHER TRANSFER FACTOR; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL PROPERTY; TARGET HAZARD QUOTIENT; URBAN POPULATION; VEGETABLE; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; RISK; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BANGLADESH;

BANGLADESH; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; METALS, HEAVY; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; VEGETABLES;

EID: 84914162961     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-014-4040-y     Document Type: Article

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