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A human health risk assessment of rare earth elements in soil and vegetables from a mining area in Fujian Province, Southeast China.

Xiaofei Li, +3 more
- 01 Oct 2013 - 
- Vol. 93, Iss: 6, pp 1240-1246
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The health risk assessment indicated that vegetable consumption would not result in exceeding the safe values of estimate daily intake (EDI) REEs for adults and children, but attention should be paid to monitoring human beings health in such rare earth mining areas due to long-term exposure to high dose REEs from food consumptions.
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Sources, behaviour, and environmental and human health risks of high-technology rare earth elements as emerging contaminants.

TL;DR: A conceptual framework and possible mitigation measures to minimize health risks are highlighted and future research is needed to better understand sources, environmental behaviour, ecotoxicology, and human epidemiology.
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The Characteristics, Occurrence, and Geochemical Behavior of Rare Earth Elements in the Environment: A Review

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A Detailed Assessment of Global Rare Earth Element Resources: Opportunities and Challenges

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Environmental fate and ecotoxicity of lanthanides: are they a uniform group beyond chemistry?

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Rare Earth Elements in the Soil Environment

TL;DR: In this article, the main sources of rare earth elements (REE) to soils, the contents of REE in soils worldwide, and relevant information on the effects of these elements to plants were explored.
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Rare earth elements in soil and plant systems - A review

TL;DR: A review of recent and current literature deals with rare earth elements in primary and secondary soil minerals, concentrations in surface soils, factors influencing adsorption, solubility and transport in soils, including weathering and transformations of rare earth minerals, and vertical distribution in soil profiles as mentioned in this paper.
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Effect of Soil pH on Adsorption of Lead, Copper, Zinc, and Nickel

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A review on the potentiality of Rare Earth Elements to trace pedogenetic processes

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the use of REEs to trace pedogenetic processes, in order to quantify the respective contribution of successive processes on pedogenesis, and conclude that REEs, much more than other trace elements, can interestingly trace the considered processes that are encountered in a large diversity of non-polluted soils arising from diverse parent materials.
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