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

Table 8 V, Sb, Cr, Al and Mn 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)
VANADIUM	Pepper	0.0050	0.010	0.00000035	0.0035	7
	Eggplant	0.0053		0.00000080	0.0080	15
	Lettuce	0.0056		0.0000015	0.015	6
	Strawberry	0.0050		0.00000025	0.0025	7
	Turnip greens	0.019		0.0000012	0.012	18
ANTIMONY	Pepper	0.0050	0.006	0.00000035	0.0059	7
	Eggplant	0.0050		0.00000075	0.013	8
	Lettuce	0.0050		0.0000013	0.022	3
	Strawberry	0.0050		0.00000025	0.0041	7
	Turnip greens	0.013		0.00000081	0.013	45
CHROMIUM	Pepper	0.029	0.001 Cr(VI)	0.0000021	0.21	11
	Eggplant	0.027		0.0000041	0.41	16
	Lettuce	0.031		0.0000085	0.85	6
	Strawberry	0.024		0.0000012	0.12	9
	Turnip greens	0.024		0.0000014	0.14	15
ALUMINIUM	Pepper	1.2	0.150	0.000084	0.056	11
	Eggplant	0.57		0.000086	0.058	14
	Lettuce	0.38		0.00010	0.068	6
	Strawberry	3.3		0.00016	0.11	10
	Turnip greens	9.8		0.00059	0.40	20
MANGANESE	Pepper	1.2	0.160	0.000087	0.055	8
	Eggplant	1.4		0.00022	0.13	13
	Lettuce	2.4		0.00066	0.41	4
	Strawberry	2.2		0.00011	0.069	8
	Turnip greens	3.0		0.00018	0.11	16

(*) 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

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