Agricultural activities, discharge of raw sewage into farms and the rise in urbanization have greatly contributed to soil pollution. During the rainy season, surface runoff from farms find their way into water bodies and deposits these contaminants into Rivers and Lakes which pos...
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Research Article10.9734/CSJI/2019/v27i230108
Phytoremediation procedure can be defined as the use of selected plants in order to eliminate some heavy metals from the soil, or wastewater in a cost-effective method. This study aimed to investigate the concentrations of heavy metals such as Cd, Pb, Cu, Zn and Cr in soils and v...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2019/v28i430113
Background: Tobacco smoking is one source of heavy metals exposure in the general population. Tobacco smoke has toxic, genotoxic, and carcinogenic properties and has been linked to fatal pregnancy outcomes. Aim: This research was carried out to investigate the concentration of Co...
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Research Article10.9734/ajarr/2019/v4i430119
Groundwater being the water present beneath the earth surface is a fresh water source due to its lower tendency to be polluted but stand the risk of contamination in recent times due to increase in industrialization, population and poor waste management. Hence the heavy metal ass...
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Research Article10.9734/sajrm/2019/v3i430094
Aim: This study investigated the health risk associated with chromium (Cr), manganese (Mn) and arsenic (As) through consumption of some food crops in selected industrialized areas located in the south eastern states of Nigeria using the estimated daily intake(EDI), bioaccumulatio...
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Research Article10.9734/arrb/2019/v31i630067
Bioaccumulation of seven heavy metals (Cr, Cd, Fe, Ni, Mn, Pb and Zn) in Amaranthus leaf cultivated in Katsina state Nigeria were measured using atomic absorption spectrometer. The health risks to the local inhabitants from the consumption of the Amaranthus leaf were evaluated b...
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Research Article10.9734/jalsi/2019/v20i430089
A. I. Yaradua, A. J. Alhassan, A. Nasir, M. Bala, A. Usman, A. Idi, I. U. Muhammad, S. A. Yaro & I. Muhammad·Asian Food Science Journal·2019
This study was conducted to determine the heavy metals concentration in Tomato fruits cultivated in Katsina State Nigeria. The objectives were mainly to detect the presence of heavy metals in the cultivated Tomato fruits in the study area, compare the concentration of heavy metal...
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Research Article10.9734/afsj/2019/v9i130001
Water scarcity of fresh water in Sub-Saharan has led to utilization of the wastewater in home gardening and also in commercial production of vegetables. Wastewater is associated with various substances including nutrients and heavy metals hence it is pertinent to evaluate its eff...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2019/v27i630095
Water samples were taken from five sampling points and their quality assessed through analysis of physical and chemical characteristics. Turbidity, temperature, conductivity, pH, dissolved oxygen and total suspended solids were determined on site during sample collection, using p...
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Research Article10.9734/irjpac/2019/v18i330092
Evaluation of bacteriological diversity and physicochemical parameters as well as the heavy metals present in the water samples collected from Kolo creek flow station located in Bayelsa State in the Niger Delta, Nigeria was carried out for the period of eight months (March to Oct...
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Research Article10.9734/jamb/2019/v16i130113
The samples of soil and selected species of vegetables (cowpea leaves, spinach, sweet potato leaves, Ethiopian mustard and Chinese cabbages) were randomly collected from four sites, Idara ya maji, Nkaiti, Mbulungu and Mkwajuni of Minjingu village of Manyara in Tanzania. The sampl...
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Research Article10.9734/ajarr/2019/v4i230105
Wavelength dispersive x-ray fluorescence (WDXRF) spectrometer was used to analyze heavy metal concentration in soils and vegetables. The soil and vegetable samples were randomly collected from Minjingu village of Manyara region in Tanzania. The results indicate the soils to be co...
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Research Article10.9734/ajr2p/2019/v2i330100
Accumulation of some heavy metals (Cu, Zn, Cd and Cr) was determined in selected fish; Moon fish (Citharinus citharus), Tilapia fish (Oreochronus niloticus), Mud fish (Clarias anguillaris), Cat fish (Clarias gariepinus) and Carp fish (Labeo coulbie) and water samples from Onuimo...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2019/v9i130087
A. I. Yaradua, A. J. Alhassan, L. A. Saulawa, A. Nasir, K. I. Matazu, A. Usman, A. Idi, I. U. Muhammad & A. Mohammad·Asian Plant Research Journal·2019
This study was conducted to determine the heavy metals concentration in maize cultivated in Katsina state Nigeria. The objectives were mainly to detect the presence of heavy metals in the cultivated maize in the study area, compare the concentration of heavy metals in samples in...
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Research Article10.9734/aprj/2019/v2i330048
This study was conducted to determine the heavy metals concentration in Hibiscus leaves cultivated in Katsina State Nigeria. The objectives were mainly to detect the presence of heavy metals in the cultivated Hibiscus leaves in the study area, compare the concentration of heavy m...
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Research Article10.9734/ajahr/2019/v3i430003