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Determination of natural radioactivity material concentrations consumed widely during Corona pandemic in Thi Qar province

The present study was carried out to assess the potential radiation hazards to the public, especially the persons who consumed onion and garlic plants widely during coronavirus disease in Thi Qar province South of Iraq. Nine samples collected from the market (5 samples onion and 4 sample Garlic), wh...

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Autores principales: Hassan, Salah J., Rashid, Jabbar M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8629341/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34868887
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2021.08.243
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description The present study was carried out to assess the potential radiation hazards to the public, especially the persons who consumed onion and garlic plants widely during coronavirus disease in Thi Qar province South of Iraq. Nine samples collected from the market (5 samples onion and 4 sample Garlic), which classified according to their origin. Using 3″x3″ NaI (Tl) gamma ray spectroscopy system, the radioactivity concentrations of the natural radionuclides radium-226, thorium-232 and potassium-40 were determined. The results obtained showed that the average concentration of radioactivity of radium-226, thorium-232 and potassium-40 is 3.398 Bqkg(−1), 4.667 Bqkg(−1) and 216.738 Bqkg(−1), respectively, for onion and 2.808 Bqkg(−1), 3.524 Bqkg(−1), and 172.064 Bqkg(−1) for garlic. The results also showed that the average annual total effective dose of the three nuclides is 122.955 [Formula: see text] for onion and 97.231 [Formula: see text] for garlic. Other relevant risk parameters were also calculated, such as equivalent activity concentrations, absorbed dose, excess lifetime cancer risks, and other health risk parameters. One of the most important conclusions reached by this study is that the natural radioactive elements in onions and garlic do not pose a great danger to their consumers, especially those infected with the COVID-19. Because the concentrations of these radioactive elements do not exceed the permissible limits recommended by recognized scientific organizations and agencies such as International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP), United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR), and World Health Organization (WHO).
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spelling pubmed-86293412021-11-30 Determination of natural radioactivity material concentrations consumed widely during Corona pandemic in Thi Qar province Hassan, Salah J. Rashid, Jabbar M. Mater Today Proc Article The present study was carried out to assess the potential radiation hazards to the public, especially the persons who consumed onion and garlic plants widely during coronavirus disease in Thi Qar province South of Iraq. Nine samples collected from the market (5 samples onion and 4 sample Garlic), which classified according to their origin. Using 3″x3″ NaI (Tl) gamma ray spectroscopy system, the radioactivity concentrations of the natural radionuclides radium-226, thorium-232 and potassium-40 were determined. The results obtained showed that the average concentration of radioactivity of radium-226, thorium-232 and potassium-40 is 3.398 Bqkg(−1), 4.667 Bqkg(−1) and 216.738 Bqkg(−1), respectively, for onion and 2.808 Bqkg(−1), 3.524 Bqkg(−1), and 172.064 Bqkg(−1) for garlic. The results also showed that the average annual total effective dose of the three nuclides is 122.955 [Formula: see text] for onion and 97.231 [Formula: see text] for garlic. Other relevant risk parameters were also calculated, such as equivalent activity concentrations, absorbed dose, excess lifetime cancer risks, and other health risk parameters. One of the most important conclusions reached by this study is that the natural radioactive elements in onions and garlic do not pose a great danger to their consumers, especially those infected with the COVID-19. Because the concentrations of these radioactive elements do not exceed the permissible limits recommended by recognized scientific organizations and agencies such as International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP), United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR), and World Health Organization (WHO). Elsevier Ltd. 2022 2021-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8629341/ /pubmed/34868887 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2021.08.243 Text en Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Selection and peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of the Indo-UK International Virtual Conference on Advanced Nanomaterials for Energy and Environmental Applications (ICANEE-2020). Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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