Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court has attracted the industry to pollute Sabarmati with toxic waste.
And, if you believe that this problem is not your concern, look well on your dining plates.
You might chew the salad and vegetables every day to stay fit, but many of them are planted in 43 villages located 60 km in Downstream Ahmedabad using very polluted water from the river.
As a result, the amount of metal found in vegetables far exceeds the standards of India, Europe and who with 3 to 28 times.
This was revealed in a study conducted by researchers from the National Earth Sciences Study Center in Thiruvananthapuram, PDEU in Gandhinagar and physical research laboratories and Sal Technology Institutes in Ahmedabad.
“Concentration of cobalt, chromium, copper, manganese, nickel, zinc, and deadly leadership found in the edible section of vegetables.
This metal cannot be removed by washing vegetables, using water de-ionized, or even drying it in the oven on an oven 80 ° C, “revealed this study, published in January 2021.
Every day, tons of vegetables entered the wholesale Ahmedabad market.
Claim Studies, “When compared to Indian food safety standards, lead discounted 12 times higher, manganese 13 times higher, three times higher chromium, zinc 2.5 times higher while copper is higher than the standard level.” This reported “For nickel, the Indian standard value is not reported.
However, when compared to European standards, found six times higher.” Researchers have collected vegetable samples since 2015 from Gyaspur, Vishalpur, Kasindra, Saroda, Chandaris, Kaloli, Asmalli and Khada – All villages are located in the downstream of Vastric Waste Processing Factory (STP), where Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation releases millions of poisonous wastewater.
This is then used by farmers in downstream.
Dr Tejas Prajapati, a city-based toxicologist, explained that heavy metals such as lead, copper, manganese, etc.
are dangerous for the human body because the molecular weight is high and thus the body cannot process it like other molecules.
“In a normal course, the molecules are metabolized in the liver and then go to the kidneys for excretion.
But kidney cells cannot remove heavy metals and hence begin to accumulate in the body.
After some time, it spread to various parts of the body such as the heart, bones and brain and influence Different internal systems, “he said, adding that the impact ranges from abdominal pain on the one side of the spectrum to another.
Dr.
Dipak Vora, a professor of forensic treatment at BJ Medical College, said that lead poisoning could cause headaches, visual disorders, sterility narrowing and heart vessels, while copper accumulation could cause muscle atrophy and the impact on the nervous system.
“The concentration of cobalt can affect the thyroid and manganese function can cause anorexia and fatigue.
In short, any heavy metal accumulation is not good for the function of the human body,” he said.
In Gyaspur, for example, spinach selected from agriculture is found to contain 11.3 (micrograms / grams) μg / g of cobalt when the level that is acceptable is 0.27 μg / g.
In other vegetables such as tomatoes, brinjal, cabbage, and cauliflower 4.4 μg / g of cobalt found.
In cabbage bought from Kasindra Village, Chandaris and Kaloli, the average nickel content was found 3.8 μg / g while the safe limit of 0.2 μg / g.
“Waste water from industrial units is carried directly or indirectly through a small channel or sub-channel to Sabarmati.
Regulations by the Government Polutionary Control Authority, Gujarat pollution control council, requires efficient treatment of all industrial waste before being repatriated,” said the people Researchers.
The team includes Bibhabasu Mohanty, Anirban Das, Mandal Reema, and the Sukanya Acharya from the PDEU and Sal Institute of Technology and Banerji’s depity represents the PRL and NCESS.