Study of heavy metal levels in indoor dust and their health risk assessment in children of Ahvaz city, Iran

Hydatid Cyst Epidemiology in Khuzestan, Iran: A 15-year Evaluation

“…Khuzestan province has an area of 63,238 km 2 . Ahvaz is the capital of this province and it is located in the Middle East, between 48°and 29' east of the Greenwich meridian, 31°and 45' minutes north of the equator (20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29). The location of Khuzestan province in the southwest of Iran is presented in Figure 1.…”

An evaluation of hospital admission respiratory disease attributed to sulfur dioxide ambient concentration in Ahvaz from 2011 through 2013

“…Seriousness of air pollution lies in the fact that high, potentially harmful pollutant levels are produced in environments which can be harmful for human health (Geravandi et al 2016a;Goudarzi et al 2015d;Taghavirad et al 2014;Ghozikali et al 2015b;Soleimani et al 2016;Neisi et al 2016;Naimabadi et al 2016). The most important of air pollutants are particulate matter, ozone (O 3 ), nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ), sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ), and carbon monoxide (CO) (Peters et al 2000;Wong et al 2002;Zallaghi et al 2015).…”

Effects of Pre-Cooking with Acetic Acid and Citric Acid on Residual Arsenic Content in Rice

“…Therefore, using organic acids and especially citric acid and acidic acid as chelating agents is effective for reducing the content of residual As in rice. The high presence of As and other types of toxic heavy metals have also been reported from Iran [26][27][28][29]. Xu et al (2014) [30] reported that the content of residual heavy metals in rice in the deep solutions were safe according to the environmental quality standard for groundwater.…”