TY - JOUR
T1 - Ecological and health risk assessment of heavy metals in the Hattar industrial estate, Pakistan
AU - Jehan, Shah
AU - Khattak, Seema Anjum
AU - Muhammad, Said
AU - Ahmad, Rafiq
AU - Farooq, Muhammad
AU - Khan, Sardar
AU - Khan, Abdullah
AU - Ali, Liaqat
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge the financial support of project # 20-2828/NRPU/R&D/HEC/10/712 received from Higher Education Commission, and technical support of National Centre of Excellence (NCE) in Geology, University of Peshawar, Pakistan.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/1/2
Y1 - 2020/1/2
N2 - This study aimed to determine the heavy metals (HMs) contaminations in soil of the Hattar industrial estate (HIE), Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. For this purpose, various types of soils were collected in HIE and analyzed for the HMs concentrations. The HMs showed highest contamination levels in wastewater irrigated agriculture soil (WWIAS), followed by waste dump site soil (WDSS), and the lowest in range land soil (RLS). Determined HMs concentrations were used for pollution quantification factors, including contamination factors (CFs), pollution load index (PLI), ecological risk factor (ER), and potential health risk assessment, including chronic or non-cancer and cancer risk levels.
AB - This study aimed to determine the heavy metals (HMs) contaminations in soil of the Hattar industrial estate (HIE), Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. For this purpose, various types of soils were collected in HIE and analyzed for the HMs concentrations. The HMs showed highest contamination levels in wastewater irrigated agriculture soil (WWIAS), followed by waste dump site soil (WDSS), and the lowest in range land soil (RLS). Determined HMs concentrations were used for pollution quantification factors, including contamination factors (CFs), pollution load index (PLI), ecological risk factor (ER), and potential health risk assessment, including chronic or non-cancer and cancer risk levels.
KW - Human risk assessment
KW - cancer risk
KW - contamination factor
KW - ecological risk factor
KW - non-cancer risk
KW - pollution load index
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U2 - 10.1080/15569543.2018.1478858
DO - 10.1080/15569543.2018.1478858
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85048788067
SN - 1556-9543
VL - 39
SP - 68
EP - 77
JO - Toxin Reviews
JF - Toxin Reviews
IS - 1
ER -
