Vradiy O. Ecotoxicological assessment of food non-wood forest resources of the Forest-Steppe of the Right Bank

The dissertation is devoted to the study of the intensity of contamination of edible mushrooms and forest berries with heavy metals – lead, cadmium, zinc and copper in the conditions of the Forest-Steppe of the Right Bank. On the basis of the conducted research, the technological aspects of measures to reduce the content of heavy metals in mushrooms were optimized to increase their level of environmental safety. The studied pollutants, being in the norm with food products, including mushrooms and berries, enter the human body, accumulate in their tissues and cause a number of changes at the cellular, tissue, organ and organismal levels. These consequences lead to changes in biochemical, physiological and metabolic processes that cause a number of diseases of the population.