Assessment of health risk due to the exposure of heavy metals in soil aroundmega coal-fired cement factory in Nigeria

Abstract

Industrial and anthropogenic activity-induced mobilisation and dispersion of potentially toxic materials into the atmosphere and human environment have been linked to serious threats to human health. Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry was used to determine the concentrations of heavy metals (Cr, Pb, Ni, Cu, Zn, and Mn) in soil samples collected near a coal-fired cement factory in northeast Nigeria