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ReviewHeliyon2023

Potential ecological risk assessment of heavy metals associated with abattoir liquid waste: A narrative and systematic review.

Solomon Nandomah, Isaac Kow Tetteh

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Review in Heliyon, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Solomon NandomahDepartment of Environmental Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
Isaac Kow TettehDepartment of Environmental Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The article presents a narrative and systematic review of the potential ecological risk assessment of heavy metals associated with abattoir liquid waste for knowledge advancement. The narrative review primarily focused on (i) An overview of abattoir operations; (ii) Characteristics of abattoir liquid waste; (iii) Heavy metals in the liquid waste and their health effects; (iv) Environmental impacts of abattoir liquid waste; and (v) Potential ecological risk index (RI) methodology. These provided essential literature for the systematic review. Using exclusive/inclusive criteria, 15 abattoirs that satisfied the eligibility criteria, all located in Nigeria, were used for the systematic review with meta-analysis/meta-regression. Comparative multiple linear meta-regression analyses were used to quantify the heterogeneity variances between the abattoirs based on standardized RIs (SRIs; effect sizes) using eight tau (

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Abattoir liquid wasteEcological riskHeavy metalsMeta-analysisMeta-regressionNarrative reviewRegulationsSystematic review

Identifiers

PMID37636457
PMCPMC10447939

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