Authors : C. B. Meshram, Pramod Meshram and Pradnya Meshram
Page Nos : 89-91
Description :
Abstract:
Vegetables are important ingredients of human diets, that contains essential nutrients and trace elements. For the development of human life heavy metals are essential. Contaminated vegetables may produce health effects on human life due to excess of heavy metals. Propose study investigate the level of six different heavy metals which are toxic (Cr, Cd, Ni, Fe, Zn, Cu) in different vegetables irrigated from waste water of Amba Nala flowing through Amravati metro city of Maharashtra state, India. Heavy metals were extracted by extraction method using concentrated HNO3, atomic adsorption spectrophotometer were used to analyze the level of heavy metals. Heavy metals were evaluated from waste water and from selected seasonal vegetables. The contents of heavy metals in waste water were found very high than vegetables crossing the permissible limit. Seasonal variation in heavy metals are also discussed.
Keywords – Heavy Metals, Waste Water, Vegetables.
