Heavy metal pollution in Guangdong Province, China, and the strategies to manage the situation

Yutao Wang, Lars Olof Björn

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    Abstract

    Guangdong Province in China runs a risk of gradually increasing pollution of its agricultural land as a consequence of toxic agricultural products. We concentrate here on the situation for cadmium, copper and lead. For these metals we describe the toxicology, the current pollution and its sources, and what can be done to improve the situation by cleaning the soil from pollutants, by choice of crops that allocate a minimum of the metals to edible parts, and by switching to non-food crops when other measures do not guarantee food safety.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1-12
    JournalFrontiers in Environmental Science
    Volume2
    Issue numberarticle 9
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2014

    Subject classification (UKÄ)

    • Biological Sciences

    Free keywords

    • pollution
    • agricultural soil
    • Guangdong
    • lead
    • copper
    • cadmium

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