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).
| Code | Arsenic (As) | Cadmium (Cd) | Chromium (Cr) | Manganese (Mn) | Nickel (Ni) | Lead (Pb) | HI |
| DS | 0.05 | 0.24 | 0.001 | 0.10 | 0.09 | 0.63 | 1.1 | AI | 0.05 | 0.27 | 0.001 | 0.16 | 0.09 | 0.38 | 0.9 | EA | 0.06 | 0.21 | 0.001 | 0.09 | 0.08 | 0.15 | 0.6 | AC | 0.04 | 0.31 | 0.001 | 0.9 | 0.09 | 2.8 | 4.1 | QA1 | 0.16 | 0.31 | 0.001 | 0.4 | 0.06 | 0.28 | 1.2 | MI | 0.05 | 0.28 | 0.001 | 0.12 | 0.05 | 0.36 | 0.9 | CN | 0.08 | 0.23 | 0.001 | 0.23 | 0.10 | 0.23 | 0.9 | QA2 | 0.06 | 0.26 | 0.001 | 0.11 | 0.04 | 0.8 | 1.2 | KS | 0.07 | 0.29 | 0.001 | 0.09 | 0.10 | 1.4 | 1.9 | SJP | 0.07 | 0.26 | 0.001 | 0.13 | 0.05 | 0.4 | 1.0 | OV | 0.03 | 0.11 | 0.001 | 0.23 | 0.05 | 0.07 | 0.5 | PP | 0.05 | 0.60 | 0.001 | 0.70 | 0.06 | 1.10 | 2.5 | TT | 0.07 | 0.20 | 0.001 | 0.09 | 0.08 | 0.24 | 0.7 | PG | 0.06 | 0.30 | 0.001 | 0.23 | 0.04 | 0.34 | 1.0 | GL | 0.04 | 0.26 | 0.001 | 0.4 | 0.05 | 0.28 | 1.0 | MO2 | 0.07 | 0.24 | 0.001 | 0.13 | 0.07 | 0.28 | 0.8 | AB2 | 0.03 | 0.18 | 0.001 | 0.06 | 0.07 | 2.1 | 2.5 | CL | 0.07 | 0.21 | 0.001 | 0.11 | 0.06 | 0.19 | 0.6 | MC | 0.03 | 0.27 | 0.001 | 0.11 | 0.10 | 0.6 | 1.1 | NL | 0.15 | 0.30 | 0.002 | 0.12 | 0.09 | 0.5 | 1.1 |
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