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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Chen, Yi-Gong
• He, Xing-Li-Shang
• Huang, Jia-Hui
• Luo, Rong
• Ge, Hong-Zhang
• Wołowicz, Anna
• Wawrzkiewicz, Monika
• Gładysz-Płaska, Agnieszka
• Li, Bo
• Yu, Qiao-Xian
• Kołodyńska, Dorota
• Lv, Gui-Yuan
• Chen, Su-Hong

Titel

Impacts of heavy metals and medicinal crops on ecological systems, environmental pollution, cultivation, and production processes in China

Ist Teil von

• Ecotoxicology and environmental safety, 2021-08, Vol.219, p.112336-112336, Article 112336

Ort / Verlag

Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Heavy metals are widely distributed in the environment due to the natural processes and anthropogenic human activities. Their migration into no contaminated areas contributing towards pollution of the ecosystems e.g. soils, plants, water and air. It is recognized that heavy metals due to their toxicity, long persistence in nature can accumulate in the trophic chain and cause organism dysfunction. Although the popularity of herbal medicine is rapidly increasing all over the world heavy metal toxicity has a great impact and importance on herbal plants and consequently affects the quality of herbal raw materials, herbal extracts, the safety and marketability of drugs. Effective control of heavy metal content in herbal plants using in pharmaceutical and food industries has become indispensable. Therefore, this review describes various important factors such as ecological and environmental pollution, cultivation and harvest of herbal plants and manufacturing processes which effects on the quality of herbal plants and then on Chinese herbal medicines which influence human health. This review also proposes possible management strategies to recover environmental sustainability and medication safety. About 276 published studies (1988–2021) are reviewed in this paper. [Display omitted] •Medicinal crops suffer with multi-source heavy metals have potential security risks.•Chinese herbal medicine faces security issues related to heavy metals.•Relationship between heavy metals and Chinese herbal medicine is evident.