Accumulation of arsenic and other metals in soil and human consumable foods of Meherpur district, southwestern Bangladesh, and associated health risk assessment

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Table 10 Bioaccumulation factors (BAF) of metals from adjacent soil to collected food crop samples

Soil sample ID	Crop sample ID	As	Fe	Mn	Co	Ni	Cu	Zn	Cr	Cd	Pb
SS-1	RP-1	8.36	0.29	1.55	0.11	0.19	0.61	0.68	0.37	2.92	0.42
SS-2	RP-2	3.28	0.22	1.00	0.14	0.17	0.60	0.61	0.30	2.94	0.41
SS-3	RP-3	5.27	0.42	1.34	0.18	0.21	0.34	0.45	0.30	1.85	0.42
SS-4	RP-4	9.00	0.65	2.35	0.32	0.38	0.98	0.81	0.69	5.33	0.60
SS-5	FS-1	0.03	0.008	0.002	0.02	0.07	0.49	0.11	0.07	0.50	0.07
SS-5	FS-5	0.35	0.006	0.001	NA	0.11	0.31	0.18	0.15	1.27	0.14
SS-6	FS-3	0.09	0.002	0.0005	NA	0.04	0.56	0.36	0.09	3.00	0.19
SS-7	FS-2	0.05	0.03	0.002	0.03	0.04	0.23	0.19	0.07	2.86	0.01
SS-8	FS-4	0.04	0.02	0.003	0.02	0.08	0.70	0.23	0.11	1.83	0.11
Mean		2.94	0.18	0.69	0.12	0.14	0.54	0.40	0.24	2.50	0.26
SD		3.74	0.23	0.89	0.11	0.11	0.23	0.25	0.20	1.38	0.20