Abstract Background Urban agriculture is potentially an important piece of the food security puzzle for a rapidly growing urban world population. Community gardening also promoted as safe and viable form exercise aging populations in crowded settings where opportunities to participate other action activities may be limited. Knowledge potential site-specific health risks environmental contaminan...

Abstract The Akaki River and its tributaries, in the city of Addis Ababa, are polluted by potentially toxic elements (PTEs) (Sb, Zn, Cd, As, Hg, Cu, Pb, Fe, V, Ni, Co, Mn, Cr, B, Sr Ba) varying degrees due to significantly fast urban expansion industrial activities. water samples collected from twenty-six different locations or sampling sites along some tributaries were analyzed ICP-MS determin...

In the last decade, extensive studies have been conducted to quantify influence of different factors on potentially toxic elements (PTE) bioaccessibility in soil; one most important is soil size fraction. However, there no agreement about fraction and methods investigate bioaccessibility, as very few review articles are available PTE none addressed particle bioaccessibility. This study provides...

Potentially toxic elements (PTEs) (V, B, Ba, Li, Sr, Cr, Ni, Al, Pb, Cd) were determined in 130 samples of different tofu types (natural, flavored, smoked, and fresh made) by ICP-OES (inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry). Al was the most notable element found with highest concentration (6.71 mg/kg ww) flavored tofu. Ni level (0.38 mg/kg) stands out smoked European has highe...