Claim · model-written summary
Kitchen-cleaned Swiss chard had higher lead concentrations than laboratory-cleaned plants.
- Taxon
- Swiss chard
Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgarise0 - Treatment
- kitchen cleaninge0
- Outcome
- Pb concentrationse0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- laboratory-cleaned plantse0
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Verbatim
e0“Swiss chard and tomatoes subjected to kitchen cleaning had higher Pb concentrations than laboratory-cleaned plants”
Title
Field Evaluations on Soil Plant Transfer of Lead from an Urban Garden Soil
Chammi P. Attanayake; Ganga M. Hettiarachchi; Ashley Harms; et al. Journal of Environmental Quality 2014. doi:10.2134/jeq2013.07.0273
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Compost diluted total soil lead by 29 to 52%.
- Observation Lead in edible portions of vegetables other than carrot was below FAO and WHO limits.
- Intervention effect Kitchen-cleaned tomatoes had higher lead concentrations than laboratory-cleaned plants.
- Intervention effect Cleaning methods did not affect carrot lead concentrations.
- Intervention effect Compost-added soils had 20 to 30% less bioaccessible lead than soils without compost.
- Intervention effect Compost reduced the potential for soil lead transfer to humans through vegetable consumption and soil ingestion.
- Intervention effect Thorough vegetable cleaning further reduced the potential for soil lead transfer to humans.