Research Article

Heavy Metal Content and Health Risk Assessment of Some Selected Medicinal Plants from Obuasi, a Mining Town in Ghana

Table 5

HQ and HI for adults (mg/kg/day).

CodeArsenic (As)Cadmium (Cd)Chromium (Cr)Manganese (Mn)Nickel (Ni)Lead (Pb)HI

DS0.050.240.0010.100.090.631.1
AI0.050.270.0010.160.090.380.9
EA0.060.210.0010.090.080.150.6
AC0.040.310.0010.90.092.84.1
QA10.160.310.0010.40.060.281.2
MI0.050.280.0010.120.050.360.9
CN0.080.230.0010.230.100.230.9
QA20.060.260.0010.110.040.81.2
KS0.070.290.0010.090.101.41.9
SJP0.070.260.0010.130.050.41.0
OV0.030.110.0010.230.050.070.5
PP0.050.600.0010.700.061.102.5
TT0.070.200.0010.090.080.240.7
PG0.060.300.0010.230.040.341.0
GL0.040.260.0010.40.050.281.0
MO20.070.240.0010.130.070.280.8
AB20.030.180.0010.060.072.12.5
CL0.070.210.0010.110.060.190.6
MC0.030.270.0010.110.100.61.1
NL0.150.300.0020.120.090.51.1