Environmental screening for the assessment of potentially toxic elements content in PGI soils from the Mediterranean region (Italy and Turkey)

Mottese, Antonio Francesco; Sabatino, Giuseppe; Bella, Marcella Di; Fede, Maria Rita; Caridi, F.; Parisi, Francesco; Marcianò, Giuseppe; Caccamo, Maria Teresa; Italiano, Francesco; Yüce, Galip; Magazù, Salvatore; Dugo, Giacomo

doi:10.1007/s12665-020-09245-3

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“…The PCA elaboration ensures the reduction of the data dimensionality, whereas the combinations of variables identified by the PCs provide the greatest contribution to sample variability. However, before the elaboration, the logarithmic transformation of the dataset was conducted and the appropriateness of the dataset was preliminarily checked by the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) test and the Bartlett test (sphericity test), as already reported in our previous work [30].…”

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Assessment of Natural Radioactivity and Radiological Risks in River Sediments from Calabria (Southern Italy)

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This study was developed to carry out a comprehensive radiological assessment of natural radioactivity for river sediment samples from Calabria, southern Italy, and to define a baseline background for the area on a radiation map. In the studied area, elevated levels of natural radionuclides are expected, due to the outcropping acidic intrusive and metamorphic rocks from which the radioactive elements derive. To identify and quantify the natural radioisotopes, ninety river sediment samples from nine selected coastal sampling points (ten samples for each point) were collected as representative of the Ionian and the Tyrrhenian coastline of Calabria. The samples were analyzed using a gamma ray spectrometer equipped with a high-purity germanium (HPGe) detector. The values of mean activity concentrations of 226Ra, 232Th and 40K measured for the studied samples are (21.3 ± 6.3) Bq kg−1, (30.3 ± 4.5) Bq kg−1 and (849 ± 79) Bq kg−1, respectively. The calculated radiological hazard indices showed average values of 63 nGy h−1 (absorbed dose rate), 0.078 mSv y−1 (effective dose outdoors), 0.111 mSv y−1 (effective dose indoors), 63 Bq kg−1 (radium equivalent), 0.35 (Hex), 0.41 (Hin), 0.50 (activity concentration index) and 458 µSv y−1 (Annual Gonadal Equivalent Dose, AGED). In order to delineate the spatial distribution of natural radionuclides on the radiological map and to identify the areas with low, medium and high radioactivity values, the Surfer 10 software was employed. Finally, the multivariate statistical analysis was performed to deduce the interdependency and any existing relationships between the radiological indices and the concentrations of the radionuclides. The results of this study, also compared with values of other locations of the Italian Peninsula characterized by similar local geological conditions, can be used as a baseline for future investigations about radioactivity background in the investigated area.

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Assessment of Natural Radioactivity and Radiological Risks in River Sediments from Calabria (Southern Italy)

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“…In Table 3 were reported from Mottese et al . (2020a, b) the data on chemical soil compositions with specific parameters able to validate the ICP‐MS method.…”

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“… a The elements were previously detected, in accord to the procedures used by Mottese et al . (2020b), to evaluate the goodness (Accuracy, Intraday repeatability and Intermediate precision) of the analytical method for soil matrices. …”

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“…In order to estimate the role of soil geochemistry on the chemical fingerprint of the investigated lemons varieties, a comparison with Italian and Turkish soil compositional data reported by Mottese et al . (2020a, b) has been carried out. The cited study provides compositional data of potentially toxic elements in PGI and not PGI soils (forty‐five representative soil samples, five for each cultivation field/years), where the analysed citrus varieties are cultivated.…”

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“…Hence, to define and to create a genetic map of food (Firmanda Al Riza et al ., 2021) and evaluate the rare earth elements (REEs) content as well as the micro–macro elements (Gaiad et al ., 2016; Potortì et al ., 2017; Mottese et al, 2020a, 2020b; Amaral, 2021; Gajek et al ., 2021; Pérez‐Rodríguez et al ., 2021), several multivariate analysis have been employed.…”

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Contribution of soil compositions, harvested times and varieties on chemical fingerprint of Italian and Turkish citrus cultivars

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Summary This paper aims to define the stability over the time of chemical elemental patterns in some citrus varieties of PGI (Protected Geographical Indication) and not PGI Interdonato and Lunario cultivars coming from Italy and Turkey and to set up a range of markers useful to trace their geographical origin. During the 2015–2017 growing seasons, all fruits were collected and subjected to Inductively Coupled Mass spectrometry (ICP‐MS) analysis, in order to determine the multielemental chemical profiles. The chemical variability was calculated for each element by Multi‐way analysis of variance. The results highlighted how the measured Cr, Ni, Al, K, Fe and Zn levels mainly depend on the soil composition and the fingerprint allow to trace the geographical origins. Moreover, the stepwise linear discriminant analysis (SLDA) has allowed to correctly classify the 100% of lemon pulps provenances, based on Ni, Al, K, Ca and Na contents. Finally, our study demonstrates the role played by harvest years, variety and soils composition whose interaction contributed to define the chemical fingerprints.

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Environmental screening for the assessment of potentially toxic elements content in PGI soils from the Mediterranean region (Italy and Turkey)

Cited by 7 publications

References 56 publications

Assessment of Natural Radioactivity and Radiological Risks in River Sediments from Calabria (Southern Italy)

Assessment of Natural Radioactivity and Radiological Risks in River Sediments from Calabria (Southern Italy)

Contribution of soil compositions, harvested times and varieties on chemical fingerprint of Italian and Turkish citrus cultivars

Heavy metal distribution in stream sediments and potential ecological risk assessment in Konya Northeast region

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