ReviewJournal of food science and technology2020
Contamination of vegetables with heavy metals across the globe: hampering food security goal.
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- Remediating toxic elements with sunflower, hemp, castor bean, & bamboo: an open dataset of harmonized variables.Scientific data · 2025Article
- Genetic and biochemical determinants in potentially toxic metals resistance and plant growth promotion in Rhizobium sp LBMP-C04.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2024Article
- Investigation of Heavy Metal Analysis on Medicinal Plants Used for the Treatment of Skin Cancer by Traditional Practitioners in Pretoria.Biological trace element research · 2024Article
- PVA/PAA/DMTD electrospun nanofibrous membrane for the selective adsorption of Pb(II) ions in liquid foods.iScience · 2024Article
- Integrated Assessment of Pb(II) and Cu(II) Metal Ion Phytotoxicity onPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Root Vegetables-Composition, Health Effects, and Contaminants.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
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- The Role of Hemicellulose in Cadmium Tolerance in Ramie (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Risk assessment of heavy metals in soils and edible parts of vegetables grown on sites contaminated by an abandoned steel plant in Havana.Environmental geochemistry and health · 2022Article
- Pressurized Hot Liquid Extraction with 15%Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in leafy vegetables consumed in southern Nigeria: concentration, risk assessment and source apportionment.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2021Article
- Plant Recovery after Metal Stress-A Review.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Oxidative RNA Modifications as an Early Response of Soybean (Frontiers in plant science · 2021Article
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Abstract
Food Security is a multifaceted aspect covering nutrition, availability, sufficiency, accessibility and safety. Millennium Development Goals as framed by United Nations focused to attain food security for all. The biggest hindrance in attaining food security was less productivity due to lack of enough resources. In order to increase the availability and produce sufficient food, malpractices like growing food on contaminated land or using untreated wastewater for irrigation came into play. Such practices have led to the transfer of heavy metals, pathogens and other harmful toxins to food crops. Various studies across the world have documented high concentration of heavy metals in vegetable crops. Root tubers and succulent stems are hyperaccumulators of heavy metals and thus tend to pose health hazard to the consuming population. In many instances the content of toxic metals in vegetables is much beyond permissible limits. Hazard quotient assessment in various studies has shown that consumption of these vegetables can be toxic to both adults and children. So, the question arises are we really attaining the global food security? There is a need to find a solution to produce sufficient, safe and nutritious food for the civilization so as to meet the goal of "zero hunger".
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