Occurrence of metals in vegetables and fruits from areas near landfill in Southern Italy and implications for human exposure

Table 10 V, Sb, Cr, Al and Mn in collected samples in markets: medium concentration (mg kg⁻¹), ADI (mg kg⁻¹ per body weight per day), EDI (medium concentration) (mg kg⁻¹ per body weight per day), Metal daily quantity ingested respect to ADI (%) and ratio of EDI (worst case) to EDI (medium concentration); a) Szefer and Nriagu 2007; b) Van Paemel et al. 2010; c) WHO/SDE/WSH/03.04/74 2003 d); INRAN-SCAI 2005–06 2010; e) Leclercq et al. 2009

Metal	Material	Medium concentration(*)	ADI^b,c	EDI(medium concentration)^d,e	Metal daily quantity ingested respect to ADI (%)	EDI (worst case) /EDI (medium concentration)
VANADIUM	Pepper	0.0053	0.010	0.00000037	0.0037	14
	Eggplant	0.0057		0.00000085	0.0085	14
	Lettuce	0.0053		0.0000014	0.014	6
	Strawberry	0.0050		0.00000025	0.0025	7
	Turnip greens	0.023		0.0000014	0.014	15
ANTIMONY	Pepper	0.0053	0.006	0.00000037	0.0062	12
	Eggplant	0.0068		0.0000010	0.017	19
	Lettuce	0.0102		0.0000027	0.046	4
	Strawberry	0.0063		0.00000031	0.0052	11
	Turnip greens	0.009		0.00000057	0.010	10
CHROMIUM	Pepper	0.024	0.001 Cr(VI)	0.0000017	0.17	19
	Eggplant	0.021		0.0000031	0.31	14
	Lettuce	0.027		0.0000073	0.73	11
	Strawberry	0.020		0.0000010	0.10	8
	Turnip greens	0.033		0.0000020	0.20	15
ALUMINIUM	Pepper	1.7	0.150	0.00012	0.080	77
	Eggplant	0.22		0.000033	0.022	12
	Lettuce	1.3		0.00036	0.24	13
	Strawberry	1.2		0.000057	0.038	18
	Turnip greens	9.7		0.00059	0.39	20
MANGANESE	Pepper	0.9	0.160	0.000064	0.040	9
	Eggplant	1.6		0.00024	0.15	15
	Lettuce	1.1		0.00030	0.19	12
	Strawberry	2.9		0.00014	0.089	23
	Turnip greens	3.1		0.00019	0.12	13

(*) It was applied the upper bound approach (EFSA Scientific report (2010)) to calculate the medium concentration. The data not-detected was equal to value of LOD and the data not-quantified was equal to LOQ

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