Occurrence of metals in vegetables and fruits from areas near landfill in Southern Italy and implications for human exposure

Table 7 Pb, Cd, total As and Hg in collected samples in fields: medium concentration (mg kg⁻¹), ADI (mg kg⁻¹ per body weight per day), EDI (medium concentration) (mg kg⁻¹ per body weight per day), Metal daily quantity ingested respect to ADI (%) and ratio of EDI (worst case) to EDI (medium concentration); a) Szefer and Nriagu 2007; b) Van Paemel et al. 2010; c) WHO/SDE/WSH/03.04/74 2003 d); INRAN-SCAI 2005–06 2010; e) Leclercq et al. 2009

Metal	Material	Medium concentration(*)	ADI^b,c	EDI(medium concentration)^d,e	Metal daily quantity ingested respect to ADI (%)	EDI (worst case) /EDI (medium concentration)
LEAD	Pepper	0.019	0.0036	0.0000013	0.036	15
	Eggplant	0.018		0.0000027	0.074	15
	Lettuce	0.018		0.0000050	0.14	5
	Strawberry	0.014		0.00000068	0.019	10
	Turnip greens	0.026		0.0000016	0.043	14
CADMIUM	Pepper	0.012	0.0001	0.00000082	0.82	11
	Eggplant	0.017		0.0000026	2.6	11
	Lettuce	0.016		0.0000044	4.4	4
	Strawberry	0.0089		0.00000044	0.44	8
	Turnip greens	0.017		0.0000011	1.1	13
Total ARSENIC	Pepper	0.022	0.005	0.0000016	0.031	8
	Eggplant	0.024		0.0000036	0.073	10
	Lettuce	0.020		0.0000054	0.11	3
	Strawberry	0.025		0.0000012	0.025	12
	Turnip greens	0.028		0.0000017	0.035	23
MERCURY	Pepper	0.0050	0.0016 () 0.0003 (*)	0.00000035	0.022	7
	Eggplant	0.0050		0.00000075	0.047	8
	Lettuce	0.0056		0.0000015	0.095	6
	Strawberry	0.0050		0.00000025	0.015	7
	Turnip greens	0.0069		0.00000042	0.026	12

(*) It was applied the upper bound approach (EFSA Scientific report(2010)) to calculate the medium concentration. The data not-detected was equal to value of LOD and the data not-quantified was equal to LOQ. (**) ADI of Hg. (***) ADI of CH₃Hg

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