“…Cadmium is produced mainly as a by-product in mining and refining of Zn, therefore its supply is more dependent on the Zn production than on the cd demand, cadmium is also recovered from recycled materials such as Zn-cd batteries (Kabata-Pendias and Mukherjee, 2007). They are many studies that focused on the assessment of cadmium in soils, most of them are carried out in Iraq (Al-jumaily, 2016), Nigeria (Ololade, 2014), China (Ololade, 2014). The main aim of the present study to investigate the concentrations of cadmium which are considered potential carcinogens to humans.…”