scholarly journals Extent of arsenic contamination and its impact on the food chain and human health in the eastern Ganges Basin: a review.

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Rajmohan ◽  
S. A. Prathapar
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Food Chain ◽  
Arsenic Contamination ◽  
Ganges Basin ◽  
Eastern Ganges Basin

Selective As(v) capture by a novel magnetic green Fe-biochar composite in a packed column: an application of central composite design

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ghazi Mohd Sawood ◽  
Shobhit Dixit ◽  
Gaurav Mishra ◽  
S. K. Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Central Composite Design ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Packed Column ◽  
Arsenic Contamination ◽  
Global Issue ◽  
Central Composite

Arsenic contamination in groundwater is a prominent global issue due to its substantial toxicological impacts on the environment and human health.

Assessing the risk of exogenously consumed pharmaceuticals in land-applied human urine

2010 ◽  
Vol 62 (6) ◽  
pp. 1335-1345 ◽  
Author(s):  
U. Khan ◽  
J. A. Nicell
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Food Chain ◽  
Human Urine ◽  
Chain Transfer ◽  
Land Application ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Pharmaceutically Active Compounds ◽  
Terrestrial Environment ◽  
Active Compounds ◽  
Food Chain Transfer

Once separated, the use of urine as fertilizer is a particular attractive proposition and can significantly mitigate the release of nutrients and pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs) to the environment. In the current study, a simple methodological framework is proposed for assessing risks that are posed by the land application of urine, which contains PhACs, in terms of 6 selected environmental and human-health endpoints. In total, 25 commonly used PhACs were conservatively assessed using the proposed methodology and results indicated that 14 of them may pose a risk with respect to either eco-toxicological or human-health endpoints. The receiving terrestrial environment was identified as the most susceptible of the eco-toxicological endpoints and hazard to human-health was most significant through food-chain transfer. The results highlight the need to consider the potential impacts associated with pharmaceuticals and the need to pre-treat urine to address the presence of problematic PhACs before it is applied on land.

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