ArticleEcotoxicology and environmental safety2025
Pollution is ubiquitous: Community-based quantitative human health risk assessment of metal(loid) exposure from contaminated garden plants and soils.
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- Building youth power and environmental health literacy with environmental justice communities in rural Arizona.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Plant and soil contaminant modeling paired with risk-based soil screening levels and ingestion rates for home gardening in environmental justice communities.Journal of environmental management · 2025Article
- Lead source apportionment and climatic impacts in rural environmental justice mining communities.Environmental research · 2025Article
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Communities across the world are attempting to practice food sovereignty, yet metal(loid) contamination of gardens may restrict one's right to define their own relationship to the environment. To understand the human health risks associated with growing and eating plants in environmental justice communities, we aggregated environmental monitoring data at 231 sites from 10 participatory research projects. Using a Bayesian quantitative risk assessment, we simulated cancer and non-cancer health risks of ingesting garden soil and crops, and simulated a comparison to the U.S Food and Drug Administration's Total Diet Study (TDS) of conventionally-grown produce. Median hazard index (HI) - (sum of risks from 17 analytes and 20 exposure routes) - and increased excess lifetime cancer risks (IELCR) - (4 analytes, 20 exposure routes) - were 2.38 and 6.53 × 10
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