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The Shipham report. An investigation into cadmium contamination and its implications for human health. Metal availability.
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This article is published in Science of The Total Environment.The article was published on 1988-08-15. It has received 130 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cadmium & Contamination.read more
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Sources of Heavy Metals and Metalloids in Soils
TL;DR: In this paper, heavy metals and metalloids in soils are derived from the soil parent material (lithogenic source) and various anthropogenic sources, most of which involve several metal(loid)s.
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Soils: their implications to human health
TL;DR: How the health of humans is affected by the world's soils is reviewed, an association that to date has been under appreciated and under reported and means that there is considerable scope for research in the future.
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Factors influencing metal bioavailability in soils: preliminary investigations for the development of a critical loads approach for metals
TL;DR: The concept of critical loads, previously applied to acidifying substances, is currently being extended, within the Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP), to several metals: Cd, Cu, Hg, Pb and Zn as discussed by the authors.
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Heavy metals incidence in the application of inorganic fertilizers and pesticides to rice farming soils
TL;DR: The results obtained show that superphosphate is the fertilizer that contains the highest concentrations of Cd, Co, Cu and Zn as impurities, and copper sulphate and iron sulphate have the most significant concentrations of Pb, and are the only fertilizers in which Ni was detected.
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Genotypic variations in the accumulation of Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn exhibited by six commonly grown vegetables.
TL;DR: Highly significant differences in metal content were evident between cultivars of a number of vegetables for several of the contaminants and distinctive differences were also identified when comparing one vegetable to another.
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Cadmium uptake from solution by plants and its transport from roots to shoots
TL;DR: In this article, the uptake of cadmium by the roots of plants and its transport to shoots was examined using solution culture, and it was concluded that although the root can take up large quantities of Cadmium from solution, there are mechanisms which may restrict the movement of cadmetric through plants, and thus to animals.
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Soil ingestion--a major pathway of heavy metals into livestock grazing contaminated land.
Iain Thornton,P. Abrahams +1 more
TL;DR: Using the titanium content of faeces as a stable indicator of soil ingestion, it is found that grazing cattle involuntarily ingest from 1% to nearly 18% of their dry matter intake as soil; sheep may ingest up to 30%.
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The resistance patterns to metals of bacterial populations in contaminated land
Betty H. Olson,I. Thornton +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the resistance of populations of soil bacteria to heavy metals was determined using a dilution technique with media containing a range of metal concentrations, and metal resistance patterns were quantitatively related to the total concentrations of Cd, Zn and Pb in surface soils from historical mining areas in Somerset and Derbyshire.
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Mercury and methyl mercury in higher fungi and their relation with the substrata in a cinnabar mining area
Roberto Bargagli,Franco Baldi +1 more
TL;DR: One hundredninetyfive specimens of higher fungi and their substrata collected in the Hg mining area of M. Amiata and around Siena (Central Italy) were analyzed for their total Hg content.