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Assessment of potential exposure to As, Cd, Pb and Zn in vegetable garden soils and vegetables in a mining region
Mining and smelting activities can contaminate soils and affect farming due to high emissions and input of potentially toxic elements (PTE) into the environment. Soils (sampled from two depths) and market vegetables from vegetable gardens located within the vicinity of unconfined slag deposits from...
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author | Vejvodová, Kateřina Ash, Christopher Dajčl, Julie Tejnecký, Václav Johanis, Hana Spasić, Marko Polák, Filip Praus, Lukáš Borůvka, Luboš Drábek, Ondřej |
author_facet | Vejvodová, Kateřina Ash, Christopher Dajčl, Julie Tejnecký, Václav Johanis, Hana Spasić, Marko Polák, Filip Praus, Lukáš Borůvka, Luboš Drábek, Ondřej |
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description | Mining and smelting activities can contaminate soils and affect farming due to high emissions and input of potentially toxic elements (PTE) into the environment. Soils (sampled from two depths) and market vegetables from vegetable gardens located within the vicinity of unconfined slag deposits from decades of mining and smelting activities in Kutná Hora, Czechia were assessed to determine to what extent they pose a health hazard to communities that use these gardens. Pseudo-total As concentrations in the soils exceeded background levels (4.5 mg kg(−1)) 1.9–93 times, with higher concentrations in the deeper layer. The pseudo-total concentrations of PTE in soils ranked in the order As > Zn > Cd > Pb. Phyto-available concentrations of PTE in soils were relatively low, compared to pseudo-total concentrations. Concentration of As, Cd, Pb and Zn in the vegetables exceeded guideline values, with the highest concentrations found in the fruits of cucumber, peppers, and zucchini. Despite low phyto-available PTE concentrations in soils, all the PTE concentrations in the vegetables surpassed the guidelines set by the Czech Ministry of Health and EU directive, indicating a health hazard to consumers. |
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spelling | pubmed-93559892022-08-07 Assessment of potential exposure to As, Cd, Pb and Zn in vegetable garden soils and vegetables in a mining region Vejvodová, Kateřina Ash, Christopher Dajčl, Julie Tejnecký, Václav Johanis, Hana Spasić, Marko Polák, Filip Praus, Lukáš Borůvka, Luboš Drábek, Ondřej Sci Rep Article Mining and smelting activities can contaminate soils and affect farming due to high emissions and input of potentially toxic elements (PTE) into the environment. Soils (sampled from two depths) and market vegetables from vegetable gardens located within the vicinity of unconfined slag deposits from decades of mining and smelting activities in Kutná Hora, Czechia were assessed to determine to what extent they pose a health hazard to communities that use these gardens. Pseudo-total As concentrations in the soils exceeded background levels (4.5 mg kg(−1)) 1.9–93 times, with higher concentrations in the deeper layer. The pseudo-total concentrations of PTE in soils ranked in the order As > Zn > Cd > Pb. Phyto-available concentrations of PTE in soils were relatively low, compared to pseudo-total concentrations. Concentration of As, Cd, Pb and Zn in the vegetables exceeded guideline values, with the highest concentrations found in the fruits of cucumber, peppers, and zucchini. Despite low phyto-available PTE concentrations in soils, all the PTE concentrations in the vegetables surpassed the guidelines set by the Czech Ministry of Health and EU directive, indicating a health hazard to consumers. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-08-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9355989/ /pubmed/35931715 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-17461-z Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Vejvodová, Kateřina Ash, Christopher Dajčl, Julie Tejnecký, Václav Johanis, Hana Spasić, Marko Polák, Filip Praus, Lukáš Borůvka, Luboš Drábek, Ondřej Assessment of potential exposure to As, Cd, Pb and Zn in vegetable garden soils and vegetables in a mining region |
title | Assessment of potential exposure to As, Cd, Pb and Zn in vegetable garden soils and vegetables in a mining region |
title_full | Assessment of potential exposure to As, Cd, Pb and Zn in vegetable garden soils and vegetables in a mining region |
title_fullStr | Assessment of potential exposure to As, Cd, Pb and Zn in vegetable garden soils and vegetables in a mining region |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessment of potential exposure to As, Cd, Pb and Zn in vegetable garden soils and vegetables in a mining region |
title_short | Assessment of potential exposure to As, Cd, Pb and Zn in vegetable garden soils and vegetables in a mining region |
title_sort | assessment of potential exposure to as, cd, pb and zn in vegetable garden soils and vegetables in a mining region |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9355989/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35931715 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-17461-z |
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