Soil contamination by potentially toxic elements and the associated human health risk in geo- and anthropogenic contaminated soils: A case study from the temperate region (Germany) and the arid region (Egypt)

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Abstract

Soil contamination was very high in the studied soils (pollution load index ranged from 1.1 to 5.2), especially in the German and Egyptian Fluvisols; health risk for children was higher than for adults, and As, Al, Cr, Cu, and Fe had a key role in soil-derived health risk.

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Shaheen, S. M., Antoniadis, V., Kwon, E., Song, H., Wang, S. L., Hseu, Z. Y., & Rinklebe, J. (2020). Soil contamination by potentially toxic elements and the associated human health risk in geo- and anthropogenic contaminated soils: A case study from the temperate region (Germany) and the arid region (Egypt). Environmental Pollution, 262. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2020.114312

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