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Risk Assessment on Human Health With Effect of Heavy Metals
The effluents of wastewater treatment plant treating municipal sewage and industrial effluents often contain high concentration of macro‐ and micronutrients including heavy metals. Such treated effluents and other sources often contain high concentration of heavy metals when used for irrigation may accumulate in agricultural soil that causes toxicity to crop plants and has emerged as a new menace to horticulture. Soil accumulates the trace metals from the water and fertilizers which is noticeable in crops and become a hazard for humans that consume vegetable grown in contaminated soil. The high ingestion of the heavy metals causes toxicity when not metabolized by body which results as deposition of metals in the different body tissues. Long‐term effect has also been reported in terms of cancer and other disease in human beings. After such effect, serious consideration has taken by different association and develop methods and indices which includes hazard quotient, Hankson potential ecological risk index (RI) transfer factor, geoaccumulation index (Igeo), translocation factor, bioaccumulation factor, enrichment factor (EF), and daily intake of metal for the evaluation of environmental risk assessment of trace metals. The nations have to make new environmental policies and use the advance technologies that can control the hazardous effect created by heavy metals. However, heavy metals toxicity and associated morbidity and mortality can be curtailed by regulating ongoing medical diagnosis, creating health awareness, and timely medical treatment. Advanced sustainability and eco‐innovative management techniques should adopt by the industries to constrict potential biological and risk assessment of metal adulteration on human health.
Risk Assessment on Human Health With Effect of Heavy Metals
The effluents of wastewater treatment plant treating municipal sewage and industrial effluents often contain high concentration of macro‐ and micronutrients including heavy metals. Such treated effluents and other sources often contain high concentration of heavy metals when used for irrigation may accumulate in agricultural soil that causes toxicity to crop plants and has emerged as a new menace to horticulture. Soil accumulates the trace metals from the water and fertilizers which is noticeable in crops and become a hazard for humans that consume vegetable grown in contaminated soil. The high ingestion of the heavy metals causes toxicity when not metabolized by body which results as deposition of metals in the different body tissues. Long‐term effect has also been reported in terms of cancer and other disease in human beings. After such effect, serious consideration has taken by different association and develop methods and indices which includes hazard quotient, Hankson potential ecological risk index (RI) transfer factor, geoaccumulation index (Igeo), translocation factor, bioaccumulation factor, enrichment factor (EF), and daily intake of metal for the evaluation of environmental risk assessment of trace metals. The nations have to make new environmental policies and use the advance technologies that can control the hazardous effect created by heavy metals. However, heavy metals toxicity and associated morbidity and mortality can be curtailed by regulating ongoing medical diagnosis, creating health awareness, and timely medical treatment. Advanced sustainability and eco‐innovative management techniques should adopt by the industries to constrict potential biological and risk assessment of metal adulteration on human health.
Risk Assessment on Human Health With Effect of Heavy Metals
Inamuddin (editor) / Ahamed, Mohd Imran (editor) / Boddula, Rajender (editor) / Rangreez, Tauseef Ahmad (editor) / Hussain, Athar (author) / Priyadarshi, Manjeeta (author) / Qureshi, Fazil (author) / Ahmed, Salman (author)
Applied Water Science Volume 1 ; 401-419
2021-05-10
19 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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