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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 650, Issue -, Pages 725-733Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.09.081
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Children; Health risk; Heavy metal; Rice; Copper smelting
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- Department of Education, Hubei Province, China [D20161301]
- Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province of China [2015CFB603]
- State Key Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry, GIGCAS [OGL-201408]
- Training Program of Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Undergraduates of Yangtze University [2017223]
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Nonferrous metallurgy is causing significant concerns due to its emissions of heavy metals into environment, degrading environmental quality, and consequently posing high risks to human health. In this study, the concentration levels of Cadmium (Cd), Copper (Cu), Lead (Pb), and Arsenic (As) were investigated in soil, crop, well water, and fish samples collected around the Daye Copper Smelter in Hubei province, China, and the potential health riskswere assessed for local children. The results showed that soils near the smelterwere heavily polluted by Cd, Cu, Pb, and As, with the mean concentrations of 4.87, 195.26, 92.65, and 35.84 mg/kg, respectively, which were significantly higher than the values of soil Cd (0.18 mg/kg), Cu (32.84 mg/kg), Pb (28.46 mg/kg), and As (13.65 mg/kg) in the reference area (p b 0.001). The concentrations of Cd and As in vegetable samples collected from smelter-affected area exceeded the maximum permissible level (MPL) for food in China by 82% and 39%, respectively. The concentrations of Cd and Pb in rice grain harvested from smelter-affected area were 9.35 and 1.35 times higher than the corresponding MPL, respectively. The concentrations of Cd, As, and Cu in fish muscle from smelter-affected area exceeded the national MPL by 72%, 41%, and 24% of analyzed samples, respectively. The concentrations of Cd (p < 0.05) and As (p < 0.01) in well water were significantly higher in the smelteraffected area than those in the reference area, respectively. The health risks to local children in the smelteraffected area were 30.25 times higher than the acceptable level of 1, and most of the risks were resulted from Cd (46%), As (27%) and Pb (20%). The intake of crops was a major source (78%) to health risks for local children. (C) 2018 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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