Assessment of heavy metal uptake by cosmos caudatus cultivated on sewage sludge / Jafre Nordin

• Main Author: Nordin, Jafre
• Format: Student Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine; Environmental health. Including sewage disposal, air pollution, nuisances, water supply; Environmental pollution; Sewage collection and disposal systems. Sewerage
• Online Access: http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/44139/1/44139.PDF; http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/44139/

Vegetables are important to our body as it contain lots of essential nutrients. Nevertheless, vegetables may contain both essential and toxic elements at a wide range of concentrations. These toxic elements namely heavy metals if ingested at unsafe concentration may lead to chronic and acute health...