A Phisico-Chemical Analysis of soil and fruits for Heavey Metals

The accumulation of heavy metals in soils especially in mining environments is of increasing concern to researchers in the Agricultural industry. Consumption of vegetables and fruits containing heavy metals is one of the main ways in which these elements enter the human body. The present study investigated the concentration of heavy metals: Cu, Zn, Cr, As and Pb in soil as well as fruit samples collected from the rehabilitated sites in the Sierra Rutile environs to evaluate the possible health risks to human body through food chain transfer. The sampled plants showed high translocation factor values (TF>1) implying that they could be labelled as accumulators of pollution. It can be concluded that the crops/plants grown in the rehabilitated lands in the Sierra Rutile environs absorb significant levels of some heavy metals from the polluted soil