Rice is one of the principal staple foods, essential for safeguarding the global food and
nutritional security, but due to different natural and anthropogenic sources, it also acts as …

Rice is the leading staple food for more than half of the world's population, and
approximately 160 million hectares of agricultural area worldwide are under rice cultivation …

Rice is a worldwide staple food and heavy metal contamination is often reported in rice
production. Heavy metal can originate from natural sources or be present through …

Production of rice, a major staple food crop, should be maintained both quantitatively and
qualitatively to assure global food security. In recent decades, various natural …

Abstract Background Arsenic (As) and cadmium (Cd) are two toxic elements that have a
relatively high risk of transfer from paddy soil to rice grain. Rice is a major dietary source of …

Cadmium (Cd) contamination in paddy fields is a serious health concern because of its high
toxicity and widespread pollution. Recently, much progress has been made in elucidating …

Cadmium (Cd) has been identified as one of the major heavy metals reaching the food chain
through various geogenic and anthropogenic activities. In many East and South Asian …

Heavy metals, a highly polluting group of constituents known to exert adverse effects, tend to
accumulate in living organisms. The objective of this study was to determine the …

Despite the global importance of atmospheric heavy metal input into agricultural soils,
research has primarily focused on the amount of the depositions with limited attention given …

Cadmium (Cd), a major contaminant of concern, has been extensively reviewed and
debated for its anthropogenic global shifts. Cadmium levels in rice grains raise wide food …