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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 43, Issue 24, Pages 9071-9076Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/es901834h
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Although small arms ranges are known to be contaminated with lead, the full extent of metal contamination has not been described, nor has the oral bioavailability of lead in these soils. In this work, soil samples from ranges with diverse geochemical backgrounds were sieved to <250 mu m and analyzed for total metal content. Soils had consistently high levels of lead and copper, ranging from 4549 to 24 484 mu g/g and 223 to 2936 mu g/g, respectively, while arsenic, antimony, nickel, and zinc concentrations were 100-fold lower. For lead bioavailability measurements, two widely accepted methods were used: an in vivo juvenile swine relative bioavailability method measuring lead absorption from ingested soils relative to equivalent lead acetate concentrations and an in vitro bioaccessibility procedure which measured acid-extractable lead as a percent of total lead in the soil. For eight samples, the mean relative bioavailability and bioaccessibility of lead for the eight soils was about 100% (108 +/- 18% and 95 +/- 6%, respectively) showing good agreement between both methods. Risk assessment and/or remediation of small arms ranges should therefore assume high bioavailability of lead.
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