Health risk assessment of heavy metals through consumption of vegetables irrigated with reclaimed urban wastewater in Algeria

Process Safety and Environmental Protection

Volumn 98, Issue , 2015, Pages 245-252

  Cherfi, Abdelhamid ^a   Achour, Mohamed ^b   Cherfi, Malika ^c   Otmani, Samia ^a   Morsli, Assia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOUMERDES   (Algeria)

^b UWWTP of the City of Boumerdes   (Algeria)

^c Hospital Mohamed Seguir Nekkache   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Estimated daily intake (EDI); Health risks assessment; Heavy metals; Reclaimed water; Target hazard quotient (THQ); Vegetables

Indexed keywords

HAZARDS; HEALTH; HEALTH RISKS; HEAVY METALS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS; SURVEYS; VEGETABLES; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER CONSERVATION;

ESTIMATED DAILY INTAKES; HEAVY METALS CONTENT; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; POTENTIAL HEALTH RISKS; RE-CLAIMED WATER; RISKS ASSESSMENTS; TARGET HAZARD QUOTIENTS; URBAN WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

WASTEWATER RECLAMATION;

EID: 84948155126     PISSN: 09575820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psep.2015.08.004     Document Type: Article

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