Spatial assessment of farmland soil pollution and its potential human health risks in China

• Published in: The Science of the total environment Vol. 687; pp. 642 - 653
• Main Authors: Zeng, Siyan, Ma, Jing, Yang, Yongjun, Zhang, Shaoliang, Liu, Gang-Jun, Chen, Fu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 15.10.2019
• Subjects: adults; agricultural soils; agroecosystems; carcinogenicity; children; China; Environmental monitoring; food crops; food safety; health effects assessments; Heavy metal pollution; heavy metals; human health; issues and policy; Organic pollution; plantations; Pollution level; polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; risk; soil management; soil pollution; Spatial distribution; vegetables; China; Pollution level; Spatial distribution; Heavy metal pollution; Environmental monitoring; Organic pollution

Soil pollution severely threatens agro-ecosystem stability. It is important to accurately understand the status of farmland pollution in order to protect national food safety and human health. However, information of the combined pollution level of Chinese farmland soil and associated human health r...