Assessment of Heavy Metals in Soya Beans and Some Cereal Samples from Shani and Kwayakusar Local Government Areas in Borno State, Nigeria | Chapter 5 | Emerging Issues in Agricultural Sciences Vol. 3

 Shani and Kwayakusar municipality areas produce large of cereal and soya beans for two together consumption and marketing purposes, thus use many of agrochemicals and other soil corrections to boost production. Heavy metals are grown and afterward absorb by plants on account of long-term use of agrochemicals, hence the need to idiot the level of these metals in cereal and soya beans samples from these regions. Cereal (sorghum and maize) and soya beans samples were calm in agricultural regions of the two municipality areas and Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (AA–6800 SHIMADZU) was use to the decide level of the heavy metals. When distinguished with joint security limit of WHO/FAO, the levels of heavy metals in rice and soya beans samples were taller in most of the land locations. The levels of all the weighty metals studied entirely the agricultural positions were higher in the post-harvest grains than in the pre-harvest grains. The average day-to-day dose (ADD) of the burdensome metals computed for cereal and soya beans samples were above the acceptable daily consumption. According to the Incremental Lifetime Cancer Risk (ILCR) results, eating wheat and soy samples from the study area commit increase your risk of developing malignancy-related ailments by agreement tolerable limits. The verdicts further suggested that the request of agrochemicals over an extended range may have happened a major subscriber to the presence of burdensome metals in the grain samples. As a result, use of the study's soy beans and cereals poses a health risk on account of their Pb, Cd, and As content and should be prioritised for one appropriate authorities.

Author(s) Details:

I. B. Lawan,
Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Maiduguri, P.M.B. 1069, Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria.

M. C. Zaynab,
Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Maiduguri, P.M.B. 1069, Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria.

I. M. Addullahi,
Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Maiduguri, P.M.B. 1069, Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria.

M. Zakari,
Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Maiduguri, P.M.B. 1069, Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria.

C. A. Joseph,
Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Maiduguri, P.M.B. 1069, Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria.

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