Below is a curated list of articles from around the world relating to the topic of soil toxicity and the need from improved regulatory oversight.

Source analysis and contribution estimation of heavy metal contamination in agricultural soils in an industrial town in the Yangtze River Delta, China

Qi, C., Xu, M., Liu, J., Li, C., Yang, B., Jin, Z., Liang, S., Guo, B. (2024). Minerals, 14, 279.

27.03.24

Evidence for the accumulation of toxic metal(loid)s in agricultural soils impacted from long-term application of phosphate fertilizer.

Hu J, Wang Z, Williams GDZ, Dwyer GS, Gatiboni L, Duckworth OW, Vengosh A. Sci Total Environ. 2024 Jan 10;907:167863.

28.02.24

Cadmium in topsoils of the European Union – An analysis based on LUCAS topsoil database.

Cristiano Ballabio, Arwyn Jones, Panos Panagos (2023)

19.01.24

Heavy metals in our food are most dangerous for kids

Society for Risk Analysis. ScienceDaily, 12 December 2023.

18.01.24

Dynamic characteristics of heavy metal accumulation in agricultural soils after continuous organic fertilizer application: Field-scale monitoring.

Sun, W., Ye, J., Lin, H., Yu, Q., Wang, Q., Chen, Z., Ma, Ji., Ma, Ju. (2023). Chemosphere, Vol. 335, 139051,

18.01.24

Effect of partial organic fertilizer substitution on heavy metal accumulation in wheat grains and associated health risks.

Liu, Y., Ma, R., Yang, Y., Wang, J., Guan, X., Wang, M., Li, N., Xu, Y., Jiang, L. (2023). Agronomy, 13, 2930

18.01.24