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

Table 9 Pb, Cd, total As and Hg in collected samples in markets: 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	0.012	0.0036	0.00000084	0.023	11
	Eggplant	0.011		0.0000016	0.045	14
	Lettuce	0.014		0.0000037	0.10	6
	Strawberry	0.011		0.00000053	0.015	13
	Turnip greens	0.025		0.0000015	0.043	14
CADMIUM	Pepper	0.010	0.0001	0.00000073	0.73	10
	Eggplant	0.006		0.00000087	0.9	14
	Lettuce	0.019		0.0000051	5.1	10
	Strawberry	0.0064		0.00000032	0.32	10
	Turnip greens	0.018		0.0000011	1.1	36
Total ARSENIC	Pepper	0.037	0.005	0.0000026	0.052	17
	Eggplant	0.031		0.0000046	0.092	12
	Lettuce	0.056		0.0000151	0.30	5
	Strawberry	0.023		0.0000011	0.022	12
	Turnip greens	0.060		0.0000036	0.073	18
MERCURY	Pepper	0.0053	0.0016 () 0.0003 (*)	0.00000037	0.023	12
	Eggplant	0.0050		0.00000075	0.047	8
	Lettuce	0.0053		0.0000014	0.089	6
	Strawberry	0.0050		0.00000025	0.015	7
	Turnip greens	0.0059		0.00000036	0.023	14

(*) 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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