Reports from Shandong Normal University Add New Study Findings to Research in Risk Management (Whole-Process Risk Management of Soil Amendments for Remediation of Heavy Metals in Agricultural Soil-A Review): Risk Management

2023 FEB 23 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Data detailed on risk management have been presented. According to news reporting originating from Jinan, People’s Republic of China, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Reducing the mobility and bioavailability of heavy metals in soils by adding exogenous materials is a technology for remediating soils contaminated with heavy metals.”

Funders for this research include National Nature Foundation of China.

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Shandong Normal University: “Unlike industrial sites, the use of such techniques in agricultural soils requires consideration of not only reducing the mobility of heavy metals but also avoiding adverse effects on soil fertility and the growth of plants. Due to the uncertainty of the stability of amendments applied to agricultural soil, the application of amendments in farmland soil is controversial. This article reviewed the field studies in which amendments were used to immobilize heavy metals, and identified the potential environmental impacts of all aspects of soil amendment usage, including production and processing, transportation, storage, application to soil, long-term stability, and plant absorption.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Results of the study indicated that after identifying the environmental risks of the whole process of the application of improvers in agricultural fields, it is necessary to classify the risks according to their characteristics, and design differentiated risk control measures for the safe application of this type of technology.”

For more information on this research see: Whole-Process Risk Management of Soil Amendments for Remediation of Heavy Metals in Agricultural Soil-A Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2023,20(1869):1869. (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph). The publisher for International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is MDPI AG.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20031869.

Our news editors report that more information may be obtained by contacting Hanlin Feng, College of Geography and Environment, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, People’s Republic of China. Additional authors for this research include Jiemin Cheng.

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