Lead toxicity: health hazards, influence on food chain, and sustainable remediation approaches

A Kumar, A Kumar, CP MMS, AK Chaturvedi… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Lead (Pb) toxicity has been a subject of interest for environmental scientists due to its toxic
effect on plants, animals, and humans. An increase in several Pb related industrial activities …

Hazardous heavy metals contamination of vegetables and food chain: Role of sustainable remediation approaches-A review

S Kumar, S Prasad, KK Yadav, M Shrivastava… - Environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
This review emphasizes the role of toxic metal remediation approaches due to their broad
sustainability and applicability. The rapid developmental processes can incorporate a large …

Heavy metals, their phytotoxicity, and the role of phenolic antioxidants in plant stress responses with focus on cadmium

EA Goncharuk, NV Zagoskina - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
The current state of heavy metal (HM) environmental pollution problems was considered in
the review: the effects of HMs on the vital activity of plants and the functioning of their …

A comprehensive review on sources, analysis and toxicity of environmental pollutants and its removal methods from water environment

A Saravanan, PS Kumar, RV Hemavathy… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Natural and human anthropogenic activities increase the concentration of the toxic pollutant
in the water environment; they could cause harmful effects even in their lower concentration …

[HTML][HTML] Biotransfer of heavy metals along the soil-plant-edible insect-human food chain in Africa

S Mwelwa, D Chungu, F Tailoka… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Although mining is Zambia's major economic activity, it is implicated in environmental
contamination, particularly with heavy metals. This study investigated the accumulation and …

Heavy metals risks in plant foods–need to step up precautionary measures

OJ Afonne, EC Ifediba - Current opinion in toxicology, 2020 - Elsevier
Plant foods have been a major source of human sustenance from the primeval ages, and
have continued to do so in recent times. Unfortunately, this food subgroup represents a …

Insights into decontamination of soils by phytoremediation: A detailed account on heavy metal toxicity and mitigation strategies

GK Rai, BA Bhat, M Mushtaq, L Tariq… - Physiologia …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In the current era of rapid industrialization, the foremost challenge is the management of
industrial wastes. Activities such as mining and industrialization spill over a large quantity of …

Amassing of heavy metals in soils, vegetables and crop plants irrigated with wastewater: Health risk assessment of heavy metals in Dera Ghazi Khan, Punjab …

MI Atta, SS Zehra, DQ Dai, H Ali, K Naveed… - Frontiers in plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Human health is the main concern related to use of crop products irrigated with
contaminated irrigation sources. Present research has been conducted to explore heavy …

Health risks assessment and source admeasurement of potentially dangerous heavy metals (Cu, Fe, and Ni) in rapidly growing urban settlement

AE Noor, R Fatima, S Aslam, A Hussain, Z un Nisa… - Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Environmental contamination is a global challenge that impacts every aspect of ecosystem.
The contaminants from anthropogenic or industrial trash continually recirculate into the …

Electrospun tannin-rich nanofibrous solid-state membrane for wastewater environmental monitoring and remediation

Z Hussain, S Ullah, J Yan, Z Wang, I Ullah, Z Ahmad… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Heavy metal, organic dyes, and bacterial contamination in water endanger human/animals'
health, and therefore, the detection, adsorption, and capturing of contaminants are essential …