Heavy Metals and Probabilistic Risk Assessment via Pheretima (a Traditional Chinese Medicine) Consumption in China

• Main Authors: Xiaohui Xu (Author), Limin Li (Author), Heng Zhou (Author), Qing Hu (Author), Lingling Wang (Author), Qiang Cai (Author), Yin Zhu (Author), Shen Ji (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Earthworms are known to accumulate inorganic contaminants from the soil; they are also used as a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) called Pheretima, which might cause safety problems with long-term exposure. Here, this study was conducted to determine and analyze the level of heavy metal contaminat...