Assessment of the Health Risk Induced by Accumulated Heavy Metals From Anaerobic Digestion of Biological Sludge of the Lettuce

Assessment of the Health Risk Induced by Accumulated Heavy Metals From Anaerobic Digestion of Biological Sludge of the Lettuce Publisher Pubmed

Shamsollahi HR¹ ; Alimohammadi M^{1, 2, 3} ; Momeni S¹ ; Naddafi K¹ ; Nabizadeh R¹ ; Khorasgani FC¹ ; Masinaei M⁴ ; Yousefi M¹

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1. Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
2. Center for Water Quality Research (CWQI), Institute for Environmental Research (IER), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
3. Health Equity Research Center (HERC), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
4. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Source: Biological Trace Element Research Published:2019

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Heavy metals are a group of pollutants in biological sludge. Many agencies regulated guidelines for heavy metal concentrations for various applications of sludge such as agricultural application. In this study, we tried to determine heavy metal fate after anaerobic digestion. Additionally, we determined the bioaccumulation rate of heavy metals in lettuce cultivated on a sludge-applied land. Heavy metal (As, Pb, Hg, Cd) contents of solid and liquid parts of raw and anaerobically digested sludge were separately measured by ICP-OES. For this purpose, the samples were digested using nitric acid, hydrochloric acid, and boric acid. Then, the raw and anaerobically digested sludge were used for cultivation of lettuce in separate farms. The heavy metal concentrations in the harvested lettuce were measured by the same procedure. The results showed that the main part of heavy metals in the raw sludge was in the liquid part (67%), while, the main part of heavy metals in the anaerobically digested samples was in the solid part of the sludge. Because of washout of dissolved heavy metals in the liquid part of the sludge, the lettuce cultivated by anaerobically digested sludge had higher content of the heavy metals in comparison to that of the lettuce cultivated by the raw sludge. This study showed that application of anaerobically digested sludge can increase the bioaccumulation rate of heavy metals in the crops and induce more human health risk. © 2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.

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MLA	Shamsollahi HR, et al.. "Assessment of the Health Risk Induced by Accumulated Heavy Metals From Anaerobic Digestion of Biological Sludge of the Lettuce." Biological Trace Element Research, vol. 188, no. 2, 2019, pp. 514-520.
APA	Shamsollahi HR, Alimohammadi M, Momeni S, Naddafi K, Nabizadeh R, Khorasgani FC, Masinaei M, Yousefi M (2019). Assessment of the Health Risk Induced by Accumulated Heavy Metals From Anaerobic Digestion of Biological Sludge of the Lettuce. Biological Trace Element Research, 188(2), 514-520.
Chicago	Shamsollahi HR, Alimohammadi M, Momeni S, Naddafi K, Nabizadeh R, Khorasgani FC, Masinaei M, Yousefi M. "Assessment of the Health Risk Induced by Accumulated Heavy Metals From Anaerobic Digestion of Biological Sludge of the Lettuce." Biological Trace Element Research 188, no. 2 (2019): 514-520.
Harvard	Shamsollahi HR et al. (2019) 'Assessment of the Health Risk Induced by Accumulated Heavy Metals From Anaerobic Digestion of Biological Sludge of the Lettuce', Biological Trace Element Research, 188(2), pp. 514-520.
Vancouver	Shamsollahi HR, Alimohammadi M, Momeni S, Naddafi K, Nabizadeh R, Khorasgani FC, et al.. Assessment of the Health Risk Induced by Accumulated Heavy Metals From Anaerobic Digestion of Biological Sludge of the Lettuce. Biological Trace Element Research. 2019;188(2):514-520.
BibTex	@article{ author = {Shamsollahi HR and Alimohammadi M and Momeni S and Naddafi K and Nabizadeh R and Khorasgani FC and Masinaei M and Yousefi M}, title = {Assessment of the Health Risk Induced by Accumulated Heavy Metals From Anaerobic Digestion of Biological Sludge of the Lettuce}, journal = {Biological Trace Element Research}, volume = {188}, number = {2}, pages = {514-520}, year = {2019} }
RIS	TY - JOUR AU - Shamsollahi HR AU - Alimohammadi M AU - Momeni S AU - Naddafi K AU - Nabizadeh R AU - Khorasgani FC AU - Masinaei M AU - Yousefi M TI - Assessment of the Health Risk Induced by Accumulated Heavy Metals From Anaerobic Digestion of Biological Sludge of the Lettuce JO - Biological Trace Element Research VL - 188 IS - 2 SP - 514 EP - 520 PY - 2019 ER -

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