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Health risk assessment of heavy metal(loid)s in park soils of the largest megacity in China by using Monte Carlo simulation coupled with Positive matrix factorization model.

Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2021
Urban Parks are important places for residents to engage in outdoor activities, and whether heavy metal(loid)s (HMs) in park soils are harmful to human health has aroused people's concern. A total of 204 topsoil samples containing nine HMs were collected
Jingling Huang, Yuying Wu, Jiaxun Sun, Xiao Li, X. Geng, Mengyue Zhao, Ting Sun, Zhengqiu Fan   +7 more
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Health Risk Assessment And Health Monitoring

SPE Offshore Europe Oil and Gas Exhibition and Conference, 2003
Abstract A theoretical and practical model that combines the two and its implementation on three mobile drilling installations offshore Monitoring the health of employees in order to detect possible long-term effects of adverse working environment conditions has been a task for several years and is ...
Sætersdal Lars, Skeggs John
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Towards an integrated health risk assessment framework of soil heavy metals pollution: Theoretical basis, conceptual model, and perspectives.

Environmental Pollution, 2022
The health risk of soil heavy metals pollution has been gaining increasing public concern. However, many countries have not set their own health risk assessment (HRA) framework and most of the existing studies directly referred to the USEPA risk ...
Shiyan Yang, Lijuan Sun, Ya-fei Sun, Ke Song, Q. Qin, Zhengyi Zhu, Yong Xue   +6 more
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Soil heavy metal pollution of industrial legacies in China and health risk assessment.

Science of the Total Environment, 2021
Rapid urbanization in China has brought about large-scale factory relocation. Severe environmental ecological and human health risks are caused by a large number of contaminated legacies left in the city.
Jingyu Peng, Zhang Shuai, Yingyue Han, B. Bate, Ke Han, Yunmin Chen   +5 more
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Effect of hydrogeological conditions on groundwater nitrate pollution and human health risk assessment of nitrate in Jiaokou Irrigation District

, 2021
Nitrate pollution in groundwater and related human health risk assessment are crucial to ensure groundwater quality safety. In this study, the grey water footprint (GWF), DRASTIC model, and human health risk assessment (HHRA) model were used to ...
Qiying Zhang, H. Qian, Panpan Xu, Weiqing Li, Wenwen Feng, R. Liu   +5 more
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Assessing the health risks of aluminum

Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 1990
Aluminum is a ubiquitous substance with over 4,000 uses. Aluminum, as aluminum sulfate, is commonly used in the United States as a coagulant in the treatment of drinking water. For many years aluminum was not considered to be toxic to humans. However, reports associating aluminum with several skeletal and neurological disorders in humans suggest that ...
J, Orme, E V, Ohanian
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Heavy metals in soil-vegetable system around E-waste site and the health risk assessment.

Science of the Total Environment, 2021
Investigating the farmland quality around electronic waste (E-waste) dismantling site and taking positive measures to ensure local food safety are urgent.
Xingmei Liu, Shunbin Gu, Shiyan Yang, Jinsong Deng, Jianming Xu   +4 more
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A Monte Carlo simulation-based health risk assessment of heavy metals in soils of an oasis agricultural region in northwest China.

Science of the Total Environment, 2022
In recent years, heavy metal contamination of soils has been increasing, posing a major threat to food security, human health, and soil ecosystems.
Zhan Liu, Qinqin Du, Qingyu Guan, Haiping Luo, Yuxin Shan, Wenyan Shao   +5 more
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Characteristics, sources, water quality and health risk assessment of trace elements in river water and well water in the Chinese Loess Plateau.

Science of the Total Environment, 2019
Water resources and water quality are restrictive factors in the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP), a unique area with most severe soil erosion, fragile ecology and water shortage.
J. Xiao, Lingqing Wang, Li Deng, Zhangdong Jin   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Procedures for Health Risk Assessment in Europe

Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, 2001
This report compares cancer classification systems, health risk assessment approaches, and procedures used for establishing occupational exposure limits (OELs), in various European countries and scientific organizations. The objectives were to highlight and compare key aspects of these processes and to identify the basis for differences in cancer ...
Seeley, M.R., Tonner-Navarro, L.E., Beck, B.D., Deskin, R., Feron, V.J., Johanson, G., Bolt, H.M.   +6 more
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