Site-specific risk assessment in contaminated vegetable gardens

• Published in: Chemosphere (Oxford) Vol. 71; no. 7; pp. 1301 - 1307
• Main Authors: Sipter, Emese, Rózsa, Enikő, Gruiz, Katalin, Tátrai, Erzsébet, Morvai, Veronika
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.04.2008; Elsevier
• Subjects: Abandoned metal mine; Agriculture; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Applied ecology; Arsenic - analysis; Biological and medical sciences; Ecotoxicology, biological effects of pollution; Food Contamination - analysis; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects; Heavy metals; Human health risk; Hungary; Metals, Heavy - analysis; Mining; Risk Assessment; Soil Pollutants - analysis; Soil pollution; Terrestrial environment, soil, air; Vegetables - chemistry; Vegetables - growth & development; Vegetables - standards; Hungary; Human health risk; Soil pollution; Heavy metals; Abandoned metal mine; Human; Garden; Edible species; Trophic relation; Risk analysis; Heavy metal; Trophic chain; Pollutant; Health and environment; Industrial wasteland; Old mine; Risk assessment; Health hazards; Public health

A field survey was carried on in Gyöngyösoroszi, Hungary, near to an abandoned lead/zinc mine to analyse the metal contamination of flooded and non-flooded vegetable gardens, and to evaluate the health risks to local population. Contamination levels of arsenic, cadmium, lead, mercury and zinc were m...