Session
Food Science and Technology
Description
Industrial contamination is one of the biggest concerns nowadays. The town of Mitrovica is located in the northern part of Kosovo, around 40 km north of the capital Pristina, with around 330 km2 and approximately 71,600 inhabitants, excluding the northern part of the city, in an altitude of about 500-550m. The town has the largest complex of mining and metallurgy in Europe -"Trepça", known for exploitation of Pb, Zn and Cd, and, as a consequence, Mitrovica continues to be one of the most polluted cities in Kosovo as in air, soil and water. The anthropogenic source of heavy metals in the environment are either as a consequence of mining, smelting and aerosol deposition, or as an outcome of working on the soil such as the application of fertilizer (agriculturally induced), waste pollution via water and landfill sites. Mining is the largest anthropogenic source of heavy metal contamination. The purpose of this paper is to assess the soil pollution with heavy metals in Mitrovica town’s surroundings and to determine its impact and average daily intake dose (ADD) through the food chain, consuming home produced poultry eggs in three different locations in coherence with the impact of the industrial tailings and dumps.
Keywords:
Mitrovica, Heavy metals, Soil, Poultry eggs
Session Chair
Emine Daci
Session Co-Chair
Valon Durguti
Proceedings Editor
Edmond Hajrizi
ISBN
978-9951-437-69-1
Location
Pristina, Kosovo
Start Date
27-10-2018 9:00 AM
End Date
27-10-2018 10:30 AM
DOI
10.33107/ubt-ic.2018.173
Recommended Citation
Musliu, Afete-Shala; Balaj, Nexhat; and Makolli, Sami, "Industrial contamination impact on food chain in correlation to poultry eggs" (2018). UBT International Conference. 173.
https://knowledgecenter.ubt-uni.net/conference/2018/all-events/173
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Industrial contamination impact on food chain in correlation to poultry eggs
Pristina, Kosovo
Industrial contamination is one of the biggest concerns nowadays. The town of Mitrovica is located in the northern part of Kosovo, around 40 km north of the capital Pristina, with around 330 km2 and approximately 71,600 inhabitants, excluding the northern part of the city, in an altitude of about 500-550m. The town has the largest complex of mining and metallurgy in Europe -"Trepça", known for exploitation of Pb, Zn and Cd, and, as a consequence, Mitrovica continues to be one of the most polluted cities in Kosovo as in air, soil and water. The anthropogenic source of heavy metals in the environment are either as a consequence of mining, smelting and aerosol deposition, or as an outcome of working on the soil such as the application of fertilizer (agriculturally induced), waste pollution via water and landfill sites. Mining is the largest anthropogenic source of heavy metal contamination. The purpose of this paper is to assess the soil pollution with heavy metals in Mitrovica town’s surroundings and to determine its impact and average daily intake dose (ADD) through the food chain, consuming home produced poultry eggs in three different locations in coherence with the impact of the industrial tailings and dumps.