Yeasmin Nahar Jolly, Ashraful Islam, Shawkat Akbar
Metal contamination in agricultural soils is of increasing concern due to food safety issues and potential health risks. Accumulation of Heavy and trace metals in vegetables occur by various sources but soil is considered the major one. Consumption of vegetables containing (heavy/trace) metals is on...
Fikret Ustaoğlu, Md. Saiful Islam
The concentration of globally alarming potential toxic elements (PTEs) like Aluminum (Al), chrome (Cr), manganese (Mn), iron (Fe), cobalt (Co), nickel (Ni), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), and uranium (U) were measured in surface sediment of seven major rivers residing...
Md. Saiful Islam, Md. Kawser Ahmed, Md. Habibullah‐Al‐Mamun, Shigeki Masunaga
Soil pollution, influenced by both the natural and anthropogenic factors, significantly reduces environmental quality. In this study, six hazardous elements (Cr, Ni, Cu, As, Cd and Pb) in 12 different land-use urban soils from Bangladesh were assessed. The ranges of Cr, Ni, Cu, As, Cd and Pb in stud...
Faruque Ahmed, Hiroaki Ishiga
Geir Bjørklund, Yuliya Semenova, Lyudmila Pivina, Maryam Dadar et al.
Uranium (U) has no known essential biological functions. Furthermore, it is well known for its toxicity, radioactivity, and carcinogenic potency. Impacts on human health due to U exposure have been studied extensively by many researchers. Chronic exposure to low-level U isotopes (radionuclides) may ...
Sabina Yasmin, Bijoy Sonker Barua, Mayeen Uddin Khandaker, F.-U.-Z. Chowdhury et al.
Following the rapid growing economy, the Bangladeshi dwellers are replacing their traditional (mud-, bamboo-, and wood-based) houses to modern multistoried buildings, where different types of glasses are being used as decorative as well as structural materials due to their various advantageous prope...
M. Nur E. Alam, M. I. Chowdhury, Masud Kamal, S. Ghose et al.
Ripan Biswas, Hossain Sahadath, Abdus Sattar Mollah, Md. Fazlul Huq
In the present study, the mass attenuation coefficient (μm) has been calculated analytically for a locally developed shielding material, polyboron, and compared with the values obtained from the WinXCom code, a Windows version of the XCOM database at the photon energy range 0.001 MeV–20 MeV. A good ...
Ehsanul Kabir, Sharmila Ray, Ki‐Hyun Kim, Hye-On Yoon et al.
There is a growing public concern over the potential accumulation of heavy metals in soil, owing to rapid industrial development. In an effort to describe the status of the pollutions of soil by industrial activities, relevant data sets reported by many studies were surveyed and reviewed. The result...
Umma Tamim, Rahat Khan, Yeasmin Nahar Jolly, Kanij Fatema et al.
To study the compositional trends associated with the spatial and layer wise distribution of heavy metals as well as the sediment response towards the untreated chemical wastes, we have analyzed river (Buriganga, Bangladesh) sediments by instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) and energy dis...
Khandoker Asaduzzaman, Farhana Mannan, Mayeen Uddin Khandaker, Mohideen Salihu Farook et al.
The concentrations of primordial radionuclides (226Ra, 232Th and 40K) in commonly used building materials (brick, cement and sand), the raw materials of cement and the by-products of coal-fired power plants (fly ash) collected from various manufacturers and suppliers in Bangladesh were determined vi...
Rafiul Alam, Zia Ahmed, M. Farhad Howladar
This study was aimed to determine the heavy metal concentration in water, soil, and plant around an open landfill site in Mogla Bazar, Sylhet, Bangladesh. The concentration of different metals such as iron (Fe), zinc (Zn), copper (Cu), manganese (Mn), lead (Pb), and cadmium (Cd) were analyzed using ...
Bernard D. Goldstein
The precautionary principle asserts that the burden of proof for potentially harmful actions by industry or government rests on the assurance of safety and that when there are threats of serious damage, scientific uncertainty must be resolved in favor of prevention. Yet we in public health are somet...
Md. Saiful Islam, Md. Kawser Ahmed, Md. Habibullah‐Al‐Mamun, Shigeki Masunaga
The objective of this study was to assess the contamination level of trace metals in soil and vegetables and health risk to the urban population in Bangladesh. The range of Cr, Ni, Cu, As, Cd, and Pb in agricultural soils was 158-1160, 104-443, 157-519, 41-93, 3.9-13, and 84-574 mg/kg, respectively....
Tapos Kormoker, Ram Proshad, Md. Saiful Islam, Saad Ahmed et al.
This study was conducted to assess the potential ecological and human health risk of toxic metals in agricultural soils near the industrial areas of Bangladesh. In this study, six toxic metals (chromium, nickel, copper, arsenic, cadmium, and lead) were assessed in 58 soil samples of five different s...