Food security is a high-priority issue for sustainable global development both quantitatively
and qualitatively. In recent decades, adverse effects of unexpected contaminants on crop …

Heavy metals are one of the most hazardous inorganic contaminants of both water and soil
environment composition. Normally, heavy metals are non-biodegradable in nature because …

Background In this review, we examine the continually expanding and increasingly
compelling data linking radiation and various chemicals in our environment to the current …

Cadmium is a toxic metal occurring in the environment naturally and as a pollutant
emanating from industrial and agricultural sources. Food is the main source of cadmium …

Cadmium is an environmental pollutant known as endocrine disruptor. Testis is particularly
susceptible to cadmium, and testis injury occurs at high but even low levels of exposure …

Many metals are essential for living organisms, but at higher doses they may be toxic and
carcinogenic. Metal exposure occurs mainly in occupational settings and environmental …

Plants absorb a number of elements from soil, some of which have no known biological
function and some are known to be toxic at low concentrations. As plants constitute the …

Mechanisms of carcinogenicity are discussed for metals and their compounds, classified as
carcinogenic to humans or considered to be carcinogenic to humans: arsenic, antimony …

Cadmium (Cd) is an environmental toxicant and an endocrine disruptor in humans and
rodents. Several organs (eg, kidney, liver) are affected by Cd and recent studies have …

Background The long time from exposure to potentially harmful chemicals until breast
cancer occurrence poses challenges for designing etiologic studies and for implementing …