An important concern for human health is the uptake of contaminants by plants from soil and their consumption by humans. The concentrations of heavy metals (lead, copper, cadmium) in the soil and plant samples collected from a village near sedimentation ponds, north-western Romania have been determined by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry after aqua regia digestion and by ...

Through the identificat,ion of copper as an active agent in hemoglobin building in the rat by Hart, Steenbock, and associates (l-7), later confirmed by McHargue, Healy, and Hill (8), the role of this element in life processes has acquired new and increased importance. Because of this newly discovered function and also because of its general occurrence in food materials (9, 10)-a fact which sugg...

Vegetables are very important in the human diet because it provide many nutrients for our body. Different types of industrial effluents, chemical fertilizers, municipal waste, and pesticides have resulted heavy metal accumulation soil ultimately vegetables. Exposure to metals by consumption contaminated vegetables its toxicity is a serious concern human/animal. This present study reveals differ...

The levels of four different heavy metals [cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), chromium (Cr) and copper (Cu)] were determined in various vegetables [leek (Allium ampeloprasum), sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum), parsley (Petroselinum crispum), garden cress (Lepidium sativum) and tarragon (Artemisia dracunculus)] cultivated around Sanandaj City. The contributions of the vegetables to the daily intake of heavy...

The paper presents research data on the content of chemical elements (Fe, Mn, Ti, Zn, Cu, Pb, Cr, Ni) in a plant Artemisia gmelinii Web. eх Stechm, growing territory Transbaikal Territory. It has been established that most studied are concentrated aboveground phytomass plant. maximum average concentrations recorded for iron, manganese and titanium. Only zinc accumulates leaves species. Nutrient...

Heavy metal content was determined in selected vegetables cultivated in some highland and lowland areas in Peninsular Malaysia. Leafy vegetables were represented by convolvulus (Ipomoea aquatica) and green mustard or sawi (Brassica rapa var. parachinensis), tubers and bulbs by sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) and onion (Allium cepa), and fruity vegetables by chilly (Capsicum annuum), brinjal (Sol...

The present study was carried out to assess levels of different heavy metals like Iron, Cadmium, Nickel, Lead, Copper and Zinc in vegetables irrigated with water from different sources industrial area of Naini Allahabad. The order of heavy metal concentration was found in Fe > Zn > Cd > Pb > Ni > Cu in irrigated water and Fe > Ni > Zn > Cu > Cd > Pb was observed in industrial contaminated sites...