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 …

Trace elements (TEs) may have toxic effects to plants and humans; thus, countries and
organizations impose maximum allowable regulation limits of their concentrations in soils …

Rice is a worldwide staple food and heavy metal contamination is often reported in rice
production. Heavy metal can originate from natural sources or be present through …

Heavy metals in soil are a great threat to ecosystems and human health. The rapid
development of industrialization has created a serious risk of heavy metal pollution in soil …

Pollution of plants by heavy metals is a critical health issue because metals can be
transmitted to animals and humans. Heavy metal exposure induces an oxidative stress in …

Gold mining is a major source of metal and metalloid emissions into the environment.
Studies were carried out in Krugersdorp, South Africa, to evaluate the ecological and human …

This paper analyzed the spatiotemporal distribution of heavy metals in 6746 samples of
aquatic organisms (fishes, shrimp and crabs), to make health risk assessments of six heavy …

The purpose of this study was to assess heavy metal contamination and health risks for
residents in the vicinity of a tailing pond in Guangdong, southern China. Water, soil, rice, and …

We studied Cd, Cr, As, Ni, Mn, Pb, and Hg in three agricultural areas of Hunan province and
determined the potential non-carcinogenic and carcinogenic risks for residents. Soil and …

This study evaluated data from the literature on the presence of heavy metals for the period
of 2010–2022 in the soils of 174 cities across the world. The range values (mg/kg) of Arsenic …