Cadmium toxicity : challenges and solutions
- Author
- Nitish Kumar
- Publication Year
- 2024
- Publisher
- Springer
- Language
- English
- Document Type
- Book
- Faculty / Subject Heading
- Medical Science
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Offers a comprehensive collection of review and case chapters that cover cadmium toxicity and remediation. It covers sources of cadmium contamination, its impact on human health, and prospective remediation strategies, taking a multi-disciplinary approach a focus on application of recent advanced biological technology. The chapters here bring together a diverse group of environmental science, sustainability and health researchers to address the challenges caused by cadmium contamination, explaining the routes of exposure to environmental cadmium, how cadmium is transported in ecosystems, and the health risks linked to cadmium exposure in food and the environment.
Keywords: Cadmium distribution / Biotechnology / Phytoremediation / Bioremediation / Cadmium dynamics / Health hazards / Cadmium - Toxicology / Cadmium - Physiological effect
