Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/15791
Title: Food crop accumulation and bioavailability assessment for antimony (Sb) compared with arsenic (As) in contaminated soils
Contributor(s): Wilson, Susan C  (author)orcid ; Tighe, Matthew  (author); Paterson, Ewan (author); Ashley, Paul  (author)
Publication Date: 2014
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-014-2577-5
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/15791
Abstract: Field samples and a 9-week glasshouse growth trial were used to investigate the accumulation of mining derived arsenic (As) and antimony (Sb) in vegetable crops growing on the Macleay River Floodplain in Northern New South Wales, Australia. The soils were also extracted using EDTA to assess the potential for this extractant to be used as a predictor of As and Sb uptake in vegetables, and a simplified bioaccessibility extraction test (SBET) to understand potential for uptake in the human gut with soil ingestion. Metalloids were not detected in any field vegetables sampled. Antimony was not detected in the growth trial vegetable crops over the 9-week greenhouse trial. Arsenic accumulation in edible vegetable parts was <10 % total soil-borne As with concentrations less than the current Australian maximum residue concentration for cereals. The results indicate that risk of exposure through short-term vegetable crops is low. The data also demonstrate that uptake pathways for Sb and As in the vegetables were different with uptake strongly impacted by soil properties.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 21(20), p. 11671-11681
Publisher: Springer
Place of Publication: Germany
ISSN: 1614-7499
0944-1344
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 050206 Environmental Monitoring
050304 Soil Chemistry (excl Carbon Sequestration Science)
050205 Environmental Management
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 410599 Pollution and contamination not elsewhere classified
300204 Agricultural management of nutrients
410404 Environmental management
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 960501 Ecosystem Assessment and Management at Regional or Larger Scales
960904 Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Land Management
961402 Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Soils
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 180403 Assessment and management of Antarctic and Southern Ocean ecosystems
180603 Evaluation, allocation, and impacts of land use
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
Appears in Collections:Journal Article
School of Environmental and Rural Science

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