Hydrophiles soil pollution

Soil contamination can contribute to human toxic exposure via a number of routes. These include plant uptakes of soil pollutants, including fertilizers and pesticides, that are either eaten by people directly or passed up the food chain, absorption onto the skin and subsequently into the bodies of grazing animals to be passed up through the food chain by animals, and via contaminated airborne soil particles that are ultimately inhaled by humans. Soils contain large lipophilic components that absorb lipophilic chemicals which are subsequently transferred to plants, animals, and to the air. Water distributed in soil dissolves hydrophilic chemicals and acts as a conduit for ultimate human absorption, through plants and thus up the food chain from whence they ultimately impact humans. 

The sources of lipophilic/hydrophilic chemical exposure include environmental pollution (air, water, and soil contamination), pesticide, herbicide, and fertilizer residues in foods and drinking water, excipients (non-active additives such as colors, flavors, rheological agents, etc,) in foods and pharmaceuticals, industrial chemicals, household chemical products, personal care products, cosmetics, and environmentally synthesized chemicals that are formed from reactions with released chemicals with each other and with naturally present species. 

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