The rural territory is often interested by polluting phenomena determined by agricultural activities with high pesticides use and/or by industrial plants or illegal dumps. The risk for the human health coming from the polluters presence in the environmental can be quantitatively evaluated by the environmental health risk analysis defined by the Legislative Decree n. 152/2006. The technical-normative procedure of risk analysis not consider the specificity of the soils designed to agricultural use and the possible agricultural products contaminations. This work aims at filling this technical-normative lack by identifying and applying a suitable methodology for the evaluation of the health risk caused by the ingestion of agricultural products grown in contaminated soils. This work shows the results of the risk analysis applied to a contaminated area in southern Italy by an innovative methodology based on scientifically consolidated and widely accepted relations. In addition, some concentration limits of organic polluters in agricultural soils are proposed.
The health risk of the agricultural products grown in potentially contaminated sites: proposal of an environmental – health risk analysis
RUSSO, Giovanni;
2012-01-01
Abstract
The rural territory is often interested by polluting phenomena determined by agricultural activities with high pesticides use and/or by industrial plants or illegal dumps. The risk for the human health coming from the polluters presence in the environmental can be quantitatively evaluated by the environmental health risk analysis defined by the Legislative Decree n. 152/2006. The technical-normative procedure of risk analysis not consider the specificity of the soils designed to agricultural use and the possible agricultural products contaminations. This work aims at filling this technical-normative lack by identifying and applying a suitable methodology for the evaluation of the health risk caused by the ingestion of agricultural products grown in contaminated soils. This work shows the results of the risk analysis applied to a contaminated area in southern Italy by an innovative methodology based on scientifically consolidated and widely accepted relations. In addition, some concentration limits of organic polluters in agricultural soils are proposed.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
