AUTHOR=Wang Yutao , Björn Lars Olof TITLE=Heavy metal pollution in Guangdong Province, China, and the strategies to manage the situation JOURNAL=Frontiers in Environmental Science VOLUME=2 YEAR=2014 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/environmental-science/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2014.00009 DOI=10.3389/fenvs.2014.00009 ISSN=2296-665X ABSTRACT=

Guangdong Province in China runs a risk of gradually increasing pollution of its agricultural land and, as a consequence, toxic agricultural products. We concentrate here on the situation for cadmium, copper, and lead. For these metals we describe the toxicology, the current pollution and its sources, and what can be done to improve the situation by cleaning the soil from pollutants, by choice of crops that allocate a minimum of the metals to edible parts, and by switching to non-food crops when other measures do not guarantee food safety.