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- Title
Excessive use of nitrogenous fertilizers: an unawareness causing serious threats to environment and human health.
- Authors
Ahmed, Moddassir; Rauf, Muhammad; Mukhtar, Zahid; Saeed, Nasir
- Abstract
Farmers occasionally need to add nitrogen fertilizer to their farms and gardens to make available just the precise nutrients for their plants' growth. The applications of inorganic nitrogen fertilizers to various crops have been continuously increasing since last many decades globally. Although nitrogen fertilizer contributes substantially to yield enhancement, but excessive use of this manure has posed serious threats to environment and human health. Rate of nitrogen fertilizers application has a close relationship with nitrate accumulation in surrounding environment, groundwater, as well as leafy and root vegetables. Consumption of diets having high nitrate contents has contributed to endogenous nitrosation, which could lead to thyroid condition, various kinds of human cancers, neural tube defects (during fetus development), and diabetes. In this short review, the authors have tried to create awareness among general public, farming community, health practitioners, and agricultural scientists for the risk involved with excessive use of nitrogen fertilizers to human health. Carcinogenic activity and other adverse effects of N-nitroso compounds might be prevented by consuming vitamin C and antioxidants containing fruits and vegetables.
- Subjects
NITROGEN fertilizers &; the environment; FERTILIZERS; NITRATES &; the environment; CANCER; CROP yields; PHYSIOLOGY
- Publication
Environmental Science & Pollution Research, 2017, Vol 24, Issue 35, p26983
- ISSN
0944-1344
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11356-017-0589-7