Heavy metal pollution and health risk assessment in black cabbage plant exposed to Giresun road dust
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Due to the geographical location of the Black Sea Region, highways connecting the cities continue along the Black Sea coast and settlements are built on mountains, hills and elevations away from the sea, and Giresun is one of these cities. There is very little flat land, so the people of Giresun utilize the smallest flat land and use it for various agricultural activities. The black cabbage (Brassica oleracea) plant, which is found on almost every meal in the Black Sea Region and Giresun, which is cooked in various types and is a source of minerals, is planted and grown in all types of soil by the people. In this study, it was aimed to quantitatively determine the heavy metal accumulations of Chromium (Cr), Manganese (Mn), Iron (Fe), Cobalt (Co), Nickel (Ni), Copper (Cu), Zinc (Zn), Arsenic (As), Selenium (Se), Cadmium (Cd), Lead (Pb) in cabbage plants grown along the highways with high traffic density and exposed to many pollutants such as road dust and exhaust gas caused by vehicles compared to the samples grown 10 km away from the traffic. The highest heavy metal accumulation among all samples was observed in Zn with a difference of 85.94 %.Health risk analyses (THQ, EDI, EWI) of heavy metals were performed and it was stated that the negative impact on human health was insignificant since the THQ value was less than 1.
Source: Journal of Ata-Chem.
Author: APAYDIN, Elif
Institution: Giresun University
Language: English
Topic: Heavy metals in environment
Subfield: Pollution
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4398198243