Friday, 5 May 2017

Health Risk Assessment of Children in the Environmental Pollution Region of Kardzhali for the Period 1991-2013

For more than 55 years is the environmental pollution region of Kardzhali in Bulgaria has been due to intense emissions from mining-processing, smelter plant and processing of nonmetallic minerals.
Health Risk Assessment of Children

The main source of pollution in those years is smelter plant (Lead and Zinc Complex), but from 2011 to 2012 respectively, lead and zinc production was gradually stopped.

One of the mechanisms to assess the health risk among the population is to conduct biological monitoring, to make biological materials to determine the concentration of heavy metals in them. The most vulnerable group is children.

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