Background & Aims of the Study:  Heavy metals are ubiquitous in the environment, as a result of both natural and anthropogenic activities, and humans are exposed to them through various pathways, especially food chain. So, this study aimed to assess heavy metals (Cu, Pb and Zn) concentrations in different parts of the leek vegetable in Hamedan Province, Iran. Materia...

Land use of sewage sludge is the primary disposal method in Shanxi, accounting for 42.66% of all. To determine the ecological risk of heavy metals in sewage sludge, contents of seven heavy metals in sewage sludge from 9 municipal waste water treatment plants (WWTPs) that had the highest application for land use were determined. The order of the measured concentrations was: Zn > Cr > Cu > Ni > P...

Sultan I. Amer, Ph.D. AQUACHEM INC. Environmental Technology • March/April 1998 Wastewater from metal finishing industries contains high concentrations of contaminants which are hazardous to the environment and pose potential health risks to the public. With increasingly stringent regulations governing wastewater discharge and greater quantities of wastewater being produced, there is a growin...

the proteins in fish, as well as other aquatic animals has nowadays become an important and complete protein sources in many people’s diets around the world and as a results, there has been a growing interest to protect and ensure the health of this important food source. heavy metals due to their specific physical and chemical characteristics as well as their effects on various ecosystems are ...

Heavy metals that enter marine environment and remain in the water as well as the sediments are accumulated by aquatic organisms, thus becoming highly good indicators to monitor metal accumulation in the long run. Metals are potentially harmful to humans and most organisms at varied levels of exposure and absorption. Northern East Mediterranean Sea is a crucial region as it is an area, shared b...

  The Kor River (Fars province) was divided into three parts and water and fish specimens were collected monthly and the concentrations of four heavy metals were determined using the Induction Coupled Plasma Method. As middle sampling zone was the main entrance and discharges of industries into the River, the concentrations of heavy metals in tissue of fish from this zone were significantly hig...

in the present study, the concentrations of three heavy metals including lead (pb), zinc (zn) and arsenic (as) in 72 different honey samples collected from north-western regions of iran were investigated using atomic absorption spectroscopy method. all metals were detected in 88.88% of the honey samples. the range of metals contamination in honey samples was 0.01 to 11.09 ppm. zn was the most a...

this study was mainly designed to investigate and identify the amounts and types of heavy metals in the soils of national iranian oil refining & distribution company in shahrood region and tried to establish a logical relation between the presence of heavy metals and their damage on vegetation. in addition, considering the power of drained soil and due to the proximity of ground water in shahro...