The Environmental Effect of Pollution and Marking Mechanism on some Metals Content of Babylon Markets Vegetable

Abstract

The aims of this  study is to discover out the metal elements content, exclusively heavy metals in specific vegetables in the Babylon markets . The collected samples  were from regions which is the most susceptible to contamination being located in places exposed to car exhaust and densely populated . the studied types of vegetables are cucumber , turnips , lettuce , tomatoes and radishes , while the studied heavy metals are Iron (Fe) , cobalt (Co) , Selenium (Se) and Potassium (K) .

the concentration of these elements were measured without washing the collected samples using atomic absorption technology . the current study results  revealed that the highest concentration of (Fe) and (Co) were in lettuce , and the highest concentration of (Se) and(K) were in radishes . where the measured concentration of (Fe , Co , Se , and K) were ( 3.0 , 0.4 , 0.3 and 145.6 mg .kg^-1 ) , (3.0 , 0.3 , 0.7 and 191.0 mg.kg^-1 ) , ( 8.6 , 3.2 , 0.6 and 194.0 mgkg^-1 ) , (2.7 , 1.2 , VDL , 235.6 mgkg^-1 ) and ( 4.2 , 0.3 , 2.3 , and 245.6 mgkg^-1 ) in cucumber , turnips , lettuce , tomatoes and radishes , respectively .