Environmental and take-home lead exposure in children living in the vicinity of a lead battery smelter in Serbia

Mandić‐Rajčević, Stefan; Bulat, Zorica; Matović, Vesna; Popević, Martin B.; Lepić, Milan; Mandić, Bojana; Jovanović, Mića; Haufroid, Vincent; Žarković, Miloš; Bulat, Petar

doi:10.1016/j.envres.2018.08.031

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“…Such sites elevate levels of lead in soils and plants 123 and have caused higher concentrations of the metal in children's blood in Serbia 124 , Australia 125 , China 126 and India 127,128 . Informal sites rarely control their harmful emissions, are subject to weak or no regulation, and are often located within residential areas 124,129,130 .…”

Section: E-waste Problemmentioning

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Environmental impacts, pollution sources and pathways of spent lithium-ion batteries

Mrozik

Rajaeifar

Heidrich

et al. 2021

Energy Environ. Sci.

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Section: E-waste Problemmentioning

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Environmental impacts, pollution sources and pathways of spent lithium-ion batteries

Mrozik

Rajaeifar

Heidrich

et al. 2021

Energy Environ. Sci.

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“…In this way we believe that it is very important to improve the recovery rate of lead in the whole process. Rajčević et al evaluated the blood lead levels in children living in two villages in Serbia, and indicated a contribution of 25%-40% of the take-home lead exposure in the blood lead levels of children living in the vicinity of a secondary lead smelter [22]. So attention should be paid to environmental management, lead dust emission, and wastewater in smelters.…”

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“…Utilization of lead (A21) Proportion of Pb content in products versus that of original waste LAB. [21,22] Utilization of sulfur (A22) Utilization rate of sulfur in waste LAB through comprehensive utilization in various ways. [19] Disposal of electrolyte (A23) Proportion of safety treated electrolyte versus total electrolyte.…”

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Multi-Criteria Evaluation of Best Available Treatment Technology for Waste Lead-Acid Battery: The Case of China

Wang

Zhang

et al. 2020

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Improper waste lead-acid battery (LAB) disposal not only damages the environment, but also leads to potential safety hazards. Given that waste best available treatment technology (BATT) plays a major role in environmental protection, pertinent research has largely focused on evaluating typical recycling technologies and recommending the BATT for waste LABs. First the evaluation indicators were selected based on the analysis of main factors affecting the pollution control of waste LAB treatment. The relative weights of each indicator were determined via the Delphi-attribute hierarchy model (AHM) in the second step. To determine the BATT, the attributive mathematics theory was adopted to calculate the attribute measure of single and multiple indices. Then, five recycling technologies commonly used in the secondary lead industry were estimated using the proposed evaluation system, and the feasibility of the recommended BATT was preliminarily verified. The results indicated that mixed smelting technology (MST), pre-desulfurization and multi-chamber smelting technology (PD-MCST), and direct smelting technology (DST) were found to perform well and were therefore deemed optimal for waste LAB disposal at this stage. The validation study showed that the DST can meet the requirements of pollution control, which is consistent with the evaluation results.

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“…Specifically, the average values of arsenic and cadmium were about 30 to 120 times higher than the standard [ 4 ]. Children living near the smelter or whose father was a smelter worker were 19.3 and 4.4 times more likely to have blood lead levels (BLLs) higher than 5 µg/dl, respectively [ 5 ]. Due to the properties of extreme toxicity, high capability of bioaccumulation, and low efficacy of biological excretion, heavy metal pollution is a severe health risk worldwide [ 6 , 7 , 8 ].…”

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The Differential Antagonistic Ability of Curcumin against Cytotoxicity and Genotoxicity Induced by Distinct Heavy Metals

Liu

Sun

Wang

et al. 2023

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Widespread heavy metal pollution has aroused severe health risks worldwide. Curcumin has been reported to play a wide-spectrum protective role for various heavy metals. However, the specificity and difference in the antagonistic ability of curcumin against distinct types of heavy metals are still largely unknown. Here, using cadmium (Cd), arsenic (As), lead (Pb), and nickel (Ni) as the typical heavy metals, we systematically compared the detoxification efficiency of curcumin on the cytotoxicity and genotoxicity elicited by different heavy metals under the same experimental conditions. Curcumin was proved to have a significant discrepant antagonistic capacity when counteracting the adverse effect of different heavy metals. Stronger protective effects of curcumin emerged when antagonizing the toxicity of Cd and As, rather than Pb and Ni. Curcumin exhibits a better detoxification ability against heavy metal-induced genotoxicity than cytotoxicity. Mechanistically, inhibiting the oxidative stress elicited by heavy metals and reducing the bioaccumulation of metal ions both contributed to the detoxification of curcumin against all the tested heavy metals. Our results illustrated that curcumin shows prominent detoxification specificity against different types of heavy metals and toxic endpoints, which provides a new clue for the better and targeted application of curcumin in heavy metal detoxification.

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Environmental and take-home lead exposure in children living in the vicinity of a lead battery smelter in Serbia

Cited by 15 publications

References 43 publications

Environmental impacts, pollution sources and pathways of spent lithium-ion batteries

Environmental impacts, pollution sources and pathways of spent lithium-ion batteries

Multi-Criteria Evaluation of Best Available Treatment Technology for Waste Lead-Acid Battery: The Case of China

The Differential Antagonistic Ability of Curcumin against Cytotoxicity and Genotoxicity Induced by Distinct Heavy Metals

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