Wastewater-based epidemiology for comprehensive communitywide exposome surveillance: A gradient of metals exposure.

ABSTRACT: Community wastewater surveillance is an established means to measure health threats. Exposure to toxic metals as one of the key environmental contaminants has been attracting public health attention as exposure can be related to contamination across air, water, and soil as well as associated with individual factors. This research uses Jefferson County, Kentucky, as an urban exposome case study to analyze sub-county metal concentrations in wastewater as a possible indicator of community toxicant exposure risk, and to test the feasibility of using wastewater to identify potential community areas of elevated metals exposure. Variability in wastewater metal concentrations were observed across the county; 19 of the 26 sites had one or more metal results greater than one standard deviation above

SUBMITTER: Cai L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10557802 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature