Journal
ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY
Volume 230, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2021.113131
Keywords
Soil quality standard; Soil property; Probabilistic analysis; Wheat and rice crops; Exposure risk
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41907353, 41977146]
- Special Foundation of State Key Lab of Urban and Regional Ecology, China [SKLURE2020-25]
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Improving soil protection guidelines through investigating Pb accumulation and exposure risks in wheat and rice fields, this study calculated a site-specific bioconcentration factor for assessing grain Pb intake risks. Optimizing wheat soil pH and cation-exchange capacity could help reduce excessive Pb dietary intake risks for local adults.
A reliable and accurate soil threshold helps prevent excessive dietary Pb intake risks to consumers of locally grown wheat and rice crops. Based on a three-year investigation of 206 wheat fields and 358 rice fields throughout China, this study aimed to improve the soil protection guidelines by investigating Pb accumulation in soil-wheat and soil-rice systems and by assessing Pb exposure risks through the soil-grain-human pathway. A sitespecific bioconcentration factor (BCF, ratio of Pb concentration in plant to that in soil) was calculated and used to assess grain Pb intake risks instead of a generic BCF value to reduce data uncertainty. In addition to soil pH, cation-exchange capacity exerted a major influence on the Pb BCF variations in wheat, whereas the organic carbon dynamics affected the BCF variations in rice. Once normalized BCF against those soil variables, the distributions of BCF were log-normal in nature. Optimizing the pH and cation-exchange capacity of wheat soils would help protect 49.8% of local adults from excessive Pb dietary intake. The scenario soil thresholds linked to soil variables and grain Pb intake risks were then derived and validated by independent data from field surveys and published articles. Poor production practices in the wheat fields under study included using soils with low fertility.
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