The QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF HAZARDS OF HEAVY METALS ON HUMAN HEALTH AND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION
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heavy metals
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Using inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry, the current study intends to explore the risks that heavy metals pose to human health and agricultural productivity (legumes, wheat, and potatoes) collected in Bangladesh. To determine Bangladesh's risk of soil pollution, a field investigation was conducted. The overall concentration of heavy metals (Cd, Cr, Cu, Pb, and Zn) as well as their bioavailable and water-soluble fractions were measured in the soil samples. All of the samples had levels of arsenic (As) and cadmium (Cd) below the limit of detection (LOD), whereas the potato samples had levels of Cd below the European Commission's (EC) maximum permissible level (MPL). The United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) technique was used to compute the risk assessment associated with direct intake of agricultural goods. Lead (Pb) had the greatest mean concentration of harmful elements in the samples of legumes. All samples had levels of mercury (Hg) and lead (Pb) greater than LOD, whereas wheat samples had lower Pb levels than EC. There was a reasonable range for the risk index. The calculated high hazard index values for mercury in wheat indicate a significant risk to human health. The findings indicate that the quantities of heavy metals were below the benchmarks used to evaluate the soil. However, depending on the sampling location, the bioavailable fraction of Pb varied greatly. There is controversy regarding the appropriate application of standard values classified by land utilisation to assess a potential danger relative to metal bioavailability, since only the soluble, exchangeable, and chelated metal species in the soils reflect the labile fractions available to plants. Standardising a trustworthy approach for determining the risk of heavy metals is advised.
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Mst.Dil Afroz Bhuiyan
Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), Dhaka Bangladesh
Md. Abul Hossain
Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Bangladesh
Shekh Mohammad Mostafa
Upazila Health & Family Planning officer, Damudya, Shariatpur, Bangladesh
Anirudha Biswas
Mass Communication and Journalism Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna 9208, Bangladesh
Mohammed Samiullah
Center for Climate Change and Environmental Research (c3er), Brac University, Bangladesh
Gul Mehnaz
Associate Professor, Women Dental College Abbottabad, Pakistan
Fozan Ahmad
King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Saudi Arabia
Arooj Saeed
University Institute of Diet & Nutritional Sciences, The University of Lahore, Pakistan
Arif Ahmed
Department of Pharmacy, University of Science and Technology Chittagong, Bangladesh
Rabia Zulfiqar
King Edward Medical University/Mayo Hospital Lahore, Pakistan