Journal article
Quantifying factors related to urban metal contamination in vegetable garden soils of the west and north of Melbourne, Australia
S Kandic, SJ Tepe, EW Blanch, S De Silva, HG Mikkonen, SM Reichman
Environmental Pollution | ELSEVIER SCI LTD | Published : 2019
Abstract
The main factors related to Pb and Cd concentrations in vegetable garden soils from Melbourne Australia were house age, building material and distance from the nearest arterial road.
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Funding Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank the School of Environmental Engineering, RMIT University for providing resources and facilities. The authors would like to thank Babu Iyer and Sandro Longano, Paul Morrisson and Zahra Homan for their technical support; Moreland Food Network for their assistance with obtaining participants for the study and Maddumagge don Erandika Aberwardane for her assistance with chemical analysis. SK would like to thank the Australian College of Toxicology and Risk Assessment (ACTRA) for awarding her a Student Prize Award in 2017 for this project.