Journal
ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY
Volume 228, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2021.112985
Keywords
Heavy metals; Bioaccessibility; APCS-MLR; Source-specific health risk; Urban dust
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41807410, 21477042]
- Open Foundation from Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Urban Environmental Processes and Pollution Control [52421020]
- Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province of China [2020J01804]
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Heavy metals in urban dust could pose noticeable human health risks, with limited studies focusing on comprehensive health risk assessment incorporating bioaccessibility and source apportionment. Most heavy metals in urban dust were significantly enriched and influenced by human activities. By integrating bioaccessibility adjustments and source apportionment, lower non-carcinogenic and carcinogenic risks of heavy metals were observed, with traffic and industrial emissions and coal combustion dominating the risks. This study highlights the importance of considering bioaccessibility and source apportionment in health risk assessment for heavy metal contamination in urban dust.
Heavy metals in urban dust could pose noticeable human health risks, but there are few studies focusing on comprehensive human health risk assessment with the incorporation of both bioaccessibility and source apportionment in urban dust. Thus, fifty-eight urban dust samples were collected from kindergartens in Xiamen to analyze the bioaccessibility-based, source-specific health risk of heavy metals (V, Co, Ni, As, Mo, Cr, Mn, Cu, Zn, and Pb). Most heavy metals, except for V and Mn, were significantly enriched in urban dust based on their values of geoaccumulation index (Igeo) and may be influenced by human activities. The oral bioaccessibility values of heavy metals, which were estimated by the Solubility/Bioaccessibility Research Consortium (SBRC) in vitro model, ranged from 1.563% to 76.51%. The source apportionment determined by applying the absolute principal component analysis-multiple linear regression (APCS-MLR) model indicated five main potential sources, coal combustion, traffic and industrial, natural, construction and furniture sources, and unidentified sources, with contributions of 34.09%, 20.72%, 18.72%, 7.597% and 18.87%, respectively, to the accumulation of heavy metals in urban dust. After incorporating bioaccessibility adjustments, lower non-carcinogenic and carcinogenic risks of heavy metals were observed than those based on total metal content, with the mean hazard index (HI) values being less than the threshold value (1) and the mean total carcinogenic risk (TCR) values exceeding the precautionary criterion (10-6) for both adults and children. By combining bioaccessibility-based health risk assessment and source apportionment, traffic and industrial emissions and coal combustion dominated the noncarcinogenic and carcinogenic risks induced by heavy metals in urban dust, respectively. This study is expected to promote the systematic integration of source apportionment and bioaccessibility into health risk estimation for heavy metal contamination in urban dust, thus providing useful implications for better human health protection.
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