IMPACT OF HEAVY METALS ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN BODY

Authors : Ashna Hassan Ahmed, Ahmad Hassan, Safar Saeed Mohammed

Pages : 356-377

Doi:10.33715/inonusaglik.1592059

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Publication Date : 2025-06-25

Article Type : Review Paper

Abstract :In the past decades, now and in the future, the issue of food security and the harmful effects of volatile contaminants on food quality, agriculture, human health, the environment, food security, and spoilage are critical issues. As technology has evolved, heavy metals have found their way into drinking water. Heavy metals cause soil contamination problems in artificial areas used for agriculture. When it comes to environmental toxins, heavy metals top the list. Even at the lowest concentrations, several of them can cause cancer and other diseases as well as autoimmune disorders. One of the major sources of water pollution by heavy metals is the decomposition and combustion of fossil fuels, exhaust fumes from vehicles, mining, agriculture, decomposition, and incineration of solid and liquid wastes. Heavy metals also occur naturally from natural events due to the toxicity of the heaviest metals to both humans and aquatic life, this pollution of the water poses a threat to all living creatures. They have many negative effects on various organisms, including plants, animals, and humans themselves, many other variables may intervene, such as lifestyle and dietary habits, levels of exposure to metals and age, gender, smoking, and mutation of ancestry. In this review, we intend to introduce further heavy substances that affect the human body in many ways.
Keywords : Heavy metals, Health, Toxicology, Cancer, Human body

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