Recent findings on the phytoremediation of soils contaminated with environmentally toxic heavy metals and metalloids such as zinc, cadmium, lead, and arsenic

I Alkorta, J Hernández-Allica, JM Becerril… - Reviews in …, 2004 - Springer
Due to their immutable nature, metals are a group of pollutants of much concern. As a result
of human activities such as mining and smelting of metalliferous ores, electroplating, gas …

Heavy metals contamination in vegetables grown in urban and metal smelter contaminated sites in Australia

AG Kachenko, B Singh - Water, air, and soil pollution, 2006 - Springer
Dietary exposure to heavy metals, namely cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), zinc (Zn) and copper
(Cu), has been identified as a risk to human health through the consumption of vegetable …

Heavy metal (Cu, Zn, Cd and Pb) contamination of vegetables in urban India: A case study in Varanasi

RK Sharma, M Agrawal, FM Marshall - Environmental pollution, 2008 - Elsevier
The contributions of heavy metals in selected vegetables through atmospheric deposition
were quantified in an urban area of India. Deposition rate of Zn was recorded maximum …

Assessing risk to human health from tropical leafy vegetables grown on contaminated urban soils

G Nabulo, SD Young, CR Black - Science of the Total Environment, 2010 - Elsevier
Fifteen tropical leafy vegetable types were sampled from farmers' gardens situated on nine
contaminated sites used to grow vegetables for commercial or subsistence consumption in …

[PDF][PDF] Heavy metals contamination in vegetables and its growing soil

RC Tasrina, A Rowshon… - J Environ Anal …, 2015 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
Heavy Metals Contamination in Vegetables and its Growing Soil Page 1 Volume 2 • Issue 3 •
1000142 J Environ Anal Chem, an open access journal ISSN: 2380-2391 Tasrina et al., J …

Assessment of potential health risk for inhabitants living near a former lead smelter. Part 1: metal concentrations in soils, agricultural crops, and homegrown …

F Douay, A Pelfrêne, J Planque, H Fourrier… - Environmental …, 2013 - Springer
Soil contamination by metals engenders important environmental and health problems in
northern France where a smelter (Metaleurop Nord) was in activity for more than a century …

The mechanism of cadmium surface complexation on iron oxyhydroxide minerals

SR Randall, DM Sherman, KV Ragnarsdottir… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 1999 - Elsevier
Many sediment and soil systems have become significantly contaminated with cadmium,
and earth scientists are now required to make increasingly accurate predictions of the risks …

Heavy metal contamination in leafy vegetables grown in Jazan region of Saudi Arabia: assessment of possible human health hazards

A Najmi, M Albratty, AJ Al-Rajab, HA Alhazmi… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The food chain, through vegetable consumption, is considered to be an important route of
heavy metal exposure. Therefore, in this study, heavy metal concentrations in leafy …

Genotypic variations in the accumulation of Cd exhibited by different vegetables

J Yang, H Guo, Y Ma, L Wang, D Wei, L Hua - Journal of environmental …, 2010 - Elsevier
It is an important approach to use the Cd-contaminated soils properly by growing low
accumulator or excluder plants for Cd to produce safe foods. To find the suitable vegetable …

[PDF][PDF] Evaluation of heavy metals content and human health risk assessment via consumption of vegetables from selected markets in Bayelsa State, Nigeria

K Patrick-Iwuanyanwu, NC Chioma - Biochem Anal Biochem, 2017 - academia.edu
The aim of this study was to evaluate the concentration of heavy metals namely (Lead (Pb),
Nickel (Ni), Cadmium (Cd) and Chromium (Cr)) via consumption of vegetables from selected …