Contamination and Health Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals in the ...

Health risk assessment of heavy metal contamination in street dust ...

The aim of this study was to assess contamination and potential human health risks of heavy metals in street dust from the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina ...

Human health risk assessment of toxic metals - ResearchGate

Contaminated soils such as mine tailings are also a potential source of arsenic exposure. (Alam et al., 2003; Caussy, 2003). The US EPA has determined that the ...

Carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic health risk assessment of heavy ...

The heavy metal concentrations (in µg/l) in the groundwater samples were found to be in the following order: Zn (154.5) > Al (40) > As (37.4) > ...

Heavy metal contamination and ecological risk assessment of the ...

A similar pattern was found that heavy metal pollution resulted from metal As and its carcinogenic risk of human in Shanxi's mines [11].

Quantification and Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals in ...

Contamination index of individual metal revealed moderate level of contamination (1 ≤ CF ≤ 3) but pollution load index of all analysed metals in the matrices ...

Contamination and health risk assessment of heavy metals in soil ...

The heavy metal pollution status was analyzed by using index of Geoaccumulation and health risk assessment. The results showed that the average index of ...

Assessment of health risk induced by heavy metal contents in ...

Metal pollution index ; <0.3, Very pure I ; 0.3–1.0, Pure II ; 1.0–2.0, Slightly affected III ; 2.0–4.0, Moderately affected IV ; 4.0–6.0, Seriously ...

Human Health Risk Assessment due to Heavy Metals in Ground and ...

BACKGROUND:Contamination of freshwater sources can be caused by both anthropogenic and natural processes. According to Central Pollution Control ...

Hazards of heavy metal contamination | British Medical Bulletin

Chronic poisoning is characterized by neurological and psychological symptoms, such as tremor, changes in personality, restlessness, anxiety, sleep disturbance ...

Human Health Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals in Groundwater in ...

Based on formulas (1) and (2), the heavy metal exposure from drinking contaminated groundwater is 9.15 × 10−3 L·kg-1·d-1 for the carcinogenic ...

Heavy metal contamination in soils and vegetables and health risk ...

Ingestion of heavy metals can upset the body chemistry, especially because these metals do not undergo decomposition within the body and have a high affinity ...

Full article: Health risk assessment quantification from heavy metals ...

The health risk assessment varied with the type of heavy metal, the time of year, the level of contamination, environmental pollution, and the human age. No ...

Distribution, pollution levels, and health risk assessment of heavy ...

Overall, the non-carcinogenic risk of the investigated metals, instigated primarily by oral ingestion of groundwater, are found to be higher ...

Framework for Metals Risk Assessment | US EPA

The Framework for Metals Risk Assessment is a science-based document that addresses the special attributes and behaviors of metals and metal compounds.

Human health risk assessment of heavy metal concentration in ...

Water pollution has become a global environmental problem, especially due to rise in toxicity of heavy metals even at low concentrations [1].

Health Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals in Vegetables ... - Brieflands

Pb has the highest HRI value and the highest potential risk for health while Cd ingestion has the least risk. Only HRI of Pb for adults was found to be near the ...

Risk assessment of soil heavy metal contamination at the census ...

Exposure to heavy metals is associated with a range of adverse health outcomes. Evidence of the harmful health effects of lead (Pb) exposure ...

Assessment of health risk and geo-accumulation of toxic heavy ...

Results: The results show that the average value of the contamination levels for the four heavy metals were within the reference values of soil ...

Comprehensive Probabilistic Health Risk Assessment for Exposure ...

Comprehensive Probabilistic Health Risk Assessment for Exposure to Arsenic and Cadmium in Groundwater ; Journal: Environmental Management, 2021, № 4, p. 779-792.

Heavy Metals Source Apportionment and Human Health Risk ...

The non-cancer hazard quotient (HQ) values were all recorded below 1. For the total hazard index (THI), all the adult's exposure pathways were negligible, while ...