PMID- 33141385
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210218
LR  - 20210218
IS  - 1614-7499 (Electronic)
IS  - 0944-1344 (Linking)
VI  - 28
IP  - 8
DP  - 2021 Feb
TI  - Source apportionment and source-specific health risk assessment of heavy metals 
      in size-fractionated road dust from a typical mining and smelting area, Gejiu, 
      China.
PG  - 9313-9326
LID - 10.1007/s11356-020-11312-y [doi]
AB  - Source-specific health risk apportionment for heavy metals is critical for 
      pollution prevention and risk management in mining and smelting areas. An 
      integrated method combining health risk assessments with the positive matrix 
      factorization model was proposed to evaluate source-specific health risks for 
      adults and children. A typical mining and smelting area was taken as an example 
      in the present study to apportion the source-specific health risks to humans. A 
      total of 37 road dust samples collected from the industrial (IA) and residential 
      areas (RA) of Gejiu (China) were analyzed for heavy metals (Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb, 
      and Zn). The results indicated that road dust in the study area was mainly 
      contaminated with Cd, Cu, Pb, and Zn. Three potential sources, including 
      atmospheric deposition, industrial waste, and natural sources, were identified 
      and quantified, with contributions of 43.32%, 30.83%, and 25.85%, respectively. 
      For non-carcinogenic risks, a similar trend of the source contribution was found 
      for adults and children under the same land use; atmospheric deposition made the 
      greatest contribution to the non-carcinogenic risk in both IA and RA. However, 
      for carcinogenic risk, natural sources were the greatest contributor to human 
      health risks in both IA and RA, followed by atmospheric deposition and industrial 
      waste. The investigation in this study allowed the evaluation of health risks 
      from potential contamination sources and the results provide valuable information 
      on health risk mitigation strategies for environmental managers.
FAU - Guo, Guanghui
AU  - Guo G
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-4852-2882
AD  - Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing, 
      100101, China. Guogh@igsnrr.ac.cn.
AD  - University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China. 
      Guogh@igsnrr.ac.cn.
FAU - Zhang, Degang
AU  - Zhang D
AD  - Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing, 
      100101, China.
AD  - University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.
FAU - Yuntao
AU  - Yuntao
FAU - Wang
AU  - Wang
AD  - Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing, 
      100101, China.
AD  - University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.
LA  - eng
GR  - 2018YFC1800104/National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program)/
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20201103
PL  - Germany
TA  - Environ Sci Pollut Res Int
JT  - Environmental science and pollution research international
JID - 9441769
RN  - 0 (Dust)
RN  - 0 (Metals, Heavy)
RN  - 0 (Soil Pollutants)
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Child
MH  - China
MH  - Dust/analysis
MH  - Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Metals, Heavy/analysis
MH  - Risk Assessment
MH  - *Soil Pollutants/analysis
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Heavy metals
OT  - Positive matrix factorization
OT  - Road dust
OT  - Source apportionment
OT  - Source-specific health risk
EDAT- 2020/11/04 06:00
MHDA- 2021/02/20 06:00
CRDT- 2020/11/03 12:50
PHST- 2020/04/01 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2020/10/18 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2020/11/04 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/02/20 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2020/11/03 12:50 [entrez]
AID - 10.1007/s11356-020-11312-y [pii]
AID - 10.1007/s11356-020-11312-y [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2021 Feb;28(8):9313-9326. doi: 
      10.1007/s11356-020-11312-y. Epub 2020 Nov 3.