Interdisciplinary research concerning soil-plant correlation, establishing of transfer factors for areas with historic anthropogenic pollution, CISPPA

Objectives:
assessment of trace elements in food chain traceability / soil-plant relationship in Baia Mare, Cluj, Timisoara respectively;
characterize of soil pollution level depending on the real crossing of trace elements from soil to plants.

OBJECTIVES	assessment of trace elements in food chain traceability / soil-plant relationship in Baia Mare, Cluj, Timisoara respectively; characterize of soil pollution level depending on the real crossing of trace elements from soil to plants.
DESCRIPTION	The project proposes the achievement of a complex study concerning the soil pollution and the correlations which exist between its pollution and the whole food chain from plants to man, in several areas from Romania, among these Baia Mare, well known for facing the historical and actual pollution and its consequences. The project CISPPA proposes as well the determining of the transfer factors between soil and plants growing on it, through the analysis of some microelements in the soil and then in the plants. The project will evaluate the health risk related to the consumer’s exposure to the assayed concentrations of microelements and will set-up the real level of pollution according to the microelements bioavailability it contains. The project will be a response to the problems related to the potential toxic microelements mobility in soil and their transfer in plats and then in the whole food chain, based on the drawing-up of assessment methods for the transfer factors. The repartition of microelements between the soil and the plants growing on it will be quantified in order to establish the real level of pollution of the soil according to the calculated transfer factors. The active degree of pollution is better defined by the quantity of microelements taken over by the plants rather than by their effective concentration in the soil. This aspect is less studied until now, but is reflected and shown by the fact that maximum limit levels of chemical components in the soil are missing from the “acquiscommunautaire”.
RESULTS ESTIMATED	models for the correlations between the microelements concentrations in soil and in plants: the data basis concerning the present level of pollution with microelements; risk assessment regarding the consumer’s exposure to the microelements assayed concentrations; the real level of soil pollution in relation to the bioavailability of the elements contained by it; maps with the microelements distribution in soil.
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