scholarly journals Health risk of heavy metals in street dust

10.2741/4896 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 327-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anahi Aguilera
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Street Dust

scholarly journals Heavy Metals in Urban Street Dust: Health Risk Assessment (Lublin City, E Poland)

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 4092
Author(s):  
Wojciech Zgłobicki ◽  
Małgorzata Telecka
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Cancer Risk ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Hazard Index ◽  
Street Dust ◽  
Geochemical Background ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Urban Street Dust ◽  
The Individual

Various pollutants, including heavy metals, present in street dust can pose a threat to the health of city dwellers. So far, studies on levels of this threat have been carried out mainly in large cities, characterised by considerable road traffic and industrial activity. This paper assesses the levels of hazard index and cancer risk for Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn contained in street dust collected in 2013 and 2018 at 62 points located in different parts of a small/medium-sized city (Lublin, E Poland). Heavy metals contents were analysed by means of XRF spectrometry (in the fraction <63 µm). Despite the fact that the concentrations of some elements (Zn, Cd and Cu) in street dust are 6–7 times higher than the geochemical background, this does not pose a risk of non-carcinogenic effects. The average hazard index (HI) for the individual elements reaches very low levels (<0.01). Cancer risk (CR) for adults is below the less strict limit of 10−4, and in the case of Pb, it is even lower than values of the order of 10−6, whereas for children, CR levels exceed the standards and are of the order of 10−4, except for Pb. For all metals except Cr, the health risk was higher in 2013 than in 2018.

scholarly journals Human health risk assessment of heavy metals in road dust collected in Cracow

2019 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
pp. 00026 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela Hajduga ◽  
Agnieszka Generowicz ◽  
Małgorzata Kryłów
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Health Risk Assessment ◽  
Hazard Quotient ◽  
Human Health Risk ◽  
Road Dust ◽  
Street Dust ◽  
The Impact

Road dust is viewed as one of the major contributors for metal pollution in urban environment and long-term exposure can cause chronic damage through ways of inhalation, ingestion, and dermal contact so they pose a great threat on human health. The article presents a study conducted to determine the concentrations of seven heavy metals in road dust from a chosen street in Cracow, and the impact of heavy metals contamination in surface street dust on human health using Health Risk Assessment. The health risk was assessed using Hazard Quotient (HQ), Health Index (HI) and Carcinogenic Risk (RI).

scholarly journals Heavy metal pollution of street dust in the largest city of Mexico, sources and health risk assessment

2021 ◽  
Vol 193 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anahi Aguilera ◽  
Francisco Bautista ◽  
Margarita Gutiérrez-Ruiz ◽  
Agueda E. Ceniceros-Gómez ◽  
Rubén Cejudo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Heavy Metal ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Heavy Metal Contamination ◽  
Contamination Factor ◽  
Street Dust ◽  
Pollution Load Index ◽  
Contamination Levels

AbstractIn large industrialized cities, tons of particles containing heavy metals are released into the environment and accumulate on street surfaces. Such particles cause a potential risk to human health due to their composition and size. The heavy metal contamination levels, main emission sources, and human health risks were identified in 482 samples of street dust. Heavy metal concentrations were obtained by microwave-assisted acid digestion and ICP-OES. The results indicated that street dust in Mexico City is contaminated mainly with Pb, Zn, and Cu, according to the contamination factor and the geoaccumulation index. The pollution load index of the street dust was made with the concentrations of Pb, Zn, Cu, Cr, and Ni. The main sources of Pb, Zn, Cu, and Cr are anthropic, probably due to vehicular traffic. The highest levels of Cr and Pb in urban dust represent a health risk for children. Contamination limits were proposed for heavy metals in street dust of Mexico City. These limits might be useful to generate and apply public policies to decrease anthropic emissions of the heavy metals studied, particularly Cr and Pb.

Characteristics and health risk assessment of heavy metals in street dust for children in Jinhua, China

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 5042-5055 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chad Joseph Bartholomew ◽  
Na Li ◽  
Yuanyuan Li ◽  
Weishuai Dai ◽  
Deborah Nibagwire ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Health Risk Assessment ◽  
Street Dust

scholarly journals Hazard, ecological, and human health risk assessment of heavy metals in street dust in Dezful, Iran

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (17) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatemeh Sadeghdoust ◽  
Navid Ghanavati ◽  
Ahad Nazarpour ◽  
Timoor Babaenejad ◽  
Michael James Watts
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Health Risk Assessment ◽  
Human Health Risk ◽  
Street Dust ◽  
Human Health Risk Assessment
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