Heta, Ganimete and Zeneli, Vehbi and Pavlovska, Gorica (2024) BIOACCUMULATION OF CU AND CO IN LEAFY AND FRUIT VEGETABLES FROM THE SUBURBS OF MITROVICA, KOSOVO. International Journal of Food Technology and Nutrition.
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Contamination of vegetables with heavy metals is one of the basic environmental problems, especially in
developing cities, primarily due to the uncontrolled level of pollution caused by industrial growth and the
increase in the number of vehicles using petroleum fuels. This paper aims to determine the bioconcentration of
heavy metals Cu and Co in leafy and fruit vegetables grown near Kosovska Mitrovica (Republic of Kosovo).
Three places near Kosovska Mitrovica (Zvečan, Frashër, and Polski) are grown: parsley, spinach, lettuce,
peppers, eggplant, and cucumber. All analyzed crops are from the 2023 harvest. In the same period, an analysis
was made of the soil on which the crops were grown. The bioconversion factor (BF)of the selected leafy and
fruit vegetables was also determined. The ICP-MS technique was used to determine the concentration of Cu
and Co in soil and leafy and fruit vegetables.
From the obtained analyzes it was determined that the soil in Frashër contains the highest amount of Cu and
Co - 58.4 mg/kg and 11.6 mg/kg respectively. The amount of Cu in the examined dry leafy and fruit vegetables
is in the range from 5.38 mg/kg to 22.4 mg/kg, and of Co from 0.27 mg/kg to 2.99 mg/kg. The bioconcentration
factor of the studied leafy and fruit vegetables of Cu and Co is in the range of 0.04 to 0.26 and 0.15 to 0.65
respectively.
The accumulation of Co in the analyzed vegetables is higher than the accumulation of Cu, due to the higher
BF values for Co. The statistical processing of the results (t-test) showed that there is a difference in the
concentration of Cu and Co between leafy and fruit vegetables, but there is no statistically significant difference
because the obtained p-values are greater than the marginal p-values.
Keywords: bioconcentration, vegetables, heavy metals, Cu, Co.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Scientific Fields (Frascati) > Natural sciences > Chemical sciences Scientific Fields (Frascati) > Agricultural Sciences > Other agricultural sciences |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Technology and Technical Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Mr Jordan Martinovski |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Nov 2025 12:55 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Nov 2025 12:55 |
| URI: | https://eprints.uklo.edu.mk/id/eprint/11225 |
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