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ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY AND HEALTH
卷 44, 期 12, 页码 4523-4538出版社
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DOI: 10.1007/s10653-022-01211-1
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Bioaccumulation factor; Estimated daily intake; Fodder crops; Health risk; Water scarcity
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- Institute of Soil and Environmental Sciences, the University of Agriculture Faisalabad
Globally, sewage water is commonly seen as a cheap and effective alternative source of irrigation and nutrients. However, untreated sewage water contains potentially toxic elements that can have harmful effects on the food chain, posing a threat to human health.
Globally, sewage water is considered a cheap and effective alternative source of irrigation and nutrient supplement. For example, in Faisalabad, Pakistan untreated sewage water loaded with potentially toxic elements (PTEs) is being routinely used to grow fodder crops in the peri-urban areas, where PTEs accumulate at different trophic levels and contaminate the food chain. Trophic transfer, bioaccumulation, and biomagnification of hazardous metals in food chains had toxic implications for human health. Currently, the major concern is associated with the consumption of PTEs contaminated fodder by animals and the subsequent translocation into humans via consumption of milk and meat from these animals. This study thus analyzed the concentration of Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn in sewage water, sewage irrigated soil, fodder is grown on such soils and the milk of cows and buffalos to calculate the transfer through water and fodder to animal milk. Overall, concentrations and bioaccumulation factors of Cd and Cu in buffalo milk were higher than the cow milk, whereas it was inverse for the concentration of Zn. Non-significant difference in the bioaccumulation factor for Pb in both buffalo and cow milk was observed. Calculation of the estimated daily intake indicated that there was no health risk associated with the consumption of tested milk samples. However, given the widespread exposure of infants to milk, continuous monitoring of milk quality is recommended to preclude a child's exposure to elevated levels of PTEs.
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