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Heavy Metal Toxicity Testing in Environmental Samples

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Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Part of the book series: Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology ((RECT,volume 142))

Abstract

Numerous toxic pollutants, such as heavy metals and organic compounds, arc being released to the environment as a result of increasing industrialization. Because of their abundance and toxicity, some heavy metals have been placed on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (USEPA) list of 129 priority pollutants (Keith and Telliard 1979). Most heavy metals, unlike organic contaminants, are not biotransformed and hence persist in the environment (Sterritt and Lester 1980; Hickey et al. 1989).

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