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Measurement of Iron in Flour and Commonly-Used Breads Baked in Isfahan, Iran: A Risk Assessment Study with Monte Carlo Simulation
Fortification of highly-consumed foods such as bread is an easy and cheap strategy to combat the iron deficiency anemia. However, there have...
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Monitoring and Health Risk Assessment of Lead and Cadmium in Date Palm Fruit Cultivars Growing in Morocco
The present study aimed to investigate the levels of two toxic trace elements (lead (Pb) and cadmium (Cd)) in 84 date fruit samples of four varieties...
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Ecological risk assessment of heavy metals in tea plantation soil around Tai Lake region in Suzhou, China
Tea plant [ Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze] is one of the important foliar cash crops in China, and its root system absorbs heavy metal (HM)...
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Analyzing Pest Risk in the Context of Climate Change
Pests pose a significant threat to global food security and agricultural productivity. Climate change has exacerbated the impact of pests by...
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An assessment of ambient noise and other environmental variables in a nonhuman primate housing facility
Acoustic noise and other environmental variables represent potential confounds for animal research. Of relevance to auditory research, sustained high...
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Heavy Metal Concentrations in Water, Sediment, and Fish Species in Chashma Barrage, Indus River: A Comprehensive Health Risk Assessment
The increasing levels of heavy metals in aquatic environments, driven by human activities, pose a critical threat to ecosystems’ overall health and...
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Winter storm risk assessment in forests with high resolution gust speed data
Winter storms pose a major threat to forest management in Central Europe. They affect forests at a large spatial scale and produce large losses in...
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Exposure and Health Risk Assessment of Heavy Metal in Crayfish from the Middle and Lower Reaches of the Yangtze River
Red swamp crayfish ( Procambarus clarkia ) is an exposed species to heavy metals due to their lifestyle of direct contact with sediments. Based on the...
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Advancing aquaculture biosecurity: a scientometric analysis and future outlook for disease prevention and environmental sustainability
Biosecurity plans are crucial for preventing economic and environmental impacts caused by disease outbreaks in aquaculture. These plans focus on...
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Ecotoxicological risk assessment of combined insecticidal and thermal stresses on Trichogramma chilonis
Trichogramma chilonis (Ishii) is an important biocontrol agent that is widely used around the world to control numerous lepidopteran pests. The...
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Can species distribution models be used for risk assessment analyses of fungal plant pathogens? A case study with three Botryosphaeriaceae species
Fungal species of the family Botryosphaeriaceae are distributed worldwide and are known important pathogens of a wide variety of forestry and...
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Probabilistic Health Risk Assessment of Iodine Exposure in Bangladesh
In this study, the concentrations of iodine in household salt samples (n = 690) were determined by following the iodometric titration method, and the...
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Environmental Chemicals
The distribution and concentration of chemicals in the environment depends on the chemical behavior and transport as well as transformation...
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Deterministic and Probabilistic Health Risk Assessment of Toxic Metals in the Daily Diets of Residents in Industrial Regions of Northern Ningxia, China
This study was designed to investigate the toxic metal (aluminum (Al), arsenic (As), chromium (Cr), cadmium (Cd), copper (Cu), nickel (Ni), lead...
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Contributions to improve current environmental risk assessment procedures of generalist arthropod biological control agents (GABCAs) in Argentina
Argentina has over 100 years of experience in classical biological control, mostly based on the importation of biological control agents (BCAs)...
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Hair Heavy Metals and Food Consumption in Residents of Chengdu: Factors, Food Contribution, and Health Risk Assessment
Heavy metal pollution is one of the most pressing issues threatening food security and human health. This study assesses heavy metal (chromium,...
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Health Risk Assessment of Lead, Cadmium, and Arsenic in Leafy Vegetables in Tehran, Iran: the Concentration Data Study
Absorption of heavy and toxic metals causes their accumulation in the edible parts of vegetables. Pollutants such as heavy metals have directly...
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Assessment and Bioaccumulation of Heavy Metals in Water, Fish (wild and Farmed) and Associated Human Health Risk
Worldwide, anthropogenic activities are causing the natural environment and aquaculture systems to become heavily contaminated with heavy metals,...
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Integrating adverse effect analysis into environmental risk assessment for exotic generalist arthropod biological control agents: a three-tiered framework
Environmental risk assessments (ERAs) are required before utilizing exotic arthropods for biological control (BC). Present ERAs focus on exposure...
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Map** risk to plant populations from short fire intervals via relationships between maturation period and environmental productivity
Short fire intervals potentially drive declines in plant populations through immaturity risk—when the interval between two fires is too short to...
