Health risk assessment and levels of toxic metals in fishes (
Clarias anguillaris
Illegal mining activity
Mudfish
Oreochromis noliticus
Tilapia
Toxic metals
“Galamsey”
Journal
Toxicology reports
ISSN: 2214-7500
Titre abrégé: Toxicol Rep
Pays: Ireland
ID NLM: 101630272
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2020
2020
Historique:
received:
21
08
2019
revised:
08
02
2020
accepted:
14
02
2020
entrez:
4
3
2020
pubmed:
4
3
2020
medline:
4
3
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Arsenic (As), mercury (Hg), Cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb) are toxic heavy metals that naturally occur in the ecosystem. Their levels are on the rise due to anthropogenic activities posing threat to aquatic wildlife and humans. In Ghana, pollution of some water bodies has led to unsafe consumption of riverine fishes as well as a shortage of treated potable water principally because the cost of treating polluted water has become expensive across the country. This study aimed to assess the As, Hg, Pb and Cd concentrations in water and fishes from rivers Pra and Ankobrah where activities of artisanal gold mining were carried out resulting in gross pollution of the water bodies. An experimental study was performed to ascertain the levels of As, Hg, Pb and Cd in fish species of Nile tilapia (
Identifiants
pubmed: 32123666
doi: 10.1016/j.toxrep.2020.02.011
pii: S2214-7500(19)30469-X
pmc: PMC7038584
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
360-369Informations de copyright
© 2020 Published by Elsevier B.V.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest.
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