Human health risk assessment of cyanide levels in water and tuber crops from Kenyasi, a mining community in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana

Human health risk assessment of cyanide levels in water and tuber crops from Kenyasi, a mining community in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana

Abstract Background Cyanide is among the most harmful substances on Earth and it is harmful to humans and most aquatic life even at low concentrations. Free, total cyanide levels and other physicochemical parameters were determined in fish, cassava, cocoyam, dam and borehole water samples collected...

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Main Authors: Edward Ebow Kwaansa-Ansah, Leticia Peace Amenorfe, Edward Kwaku Armah, Francis Opoku
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-10-01
Series:International Journal of Food Contamination
Subjects:
Total and free cyanide
Tuber crops
Water
Continuous flow analysis
Physicochemical parameters
Kenyasi-Ghana
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40550-017-0061-y

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