Health Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals in Rice to the ...
Similar levels with our data were reported by Qian et al. and Cao et al. . Chen et al. and Huang et al. found the Pb with the mean level of 0.114 mg/kg and 0.171 mg/kg respectively. In polluted area of China, the mean Pb level was as high as 2.042 mg/kg (n = 13) . The variance might be caused by the different sampling sites and pollution status.