Retraction Note: Environ Geochem Health (2019) 41:841–849 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-018-0182-0

The Editor-in-Chief has retracted this article because it contains material that substantially overlaps with another published article [1].

Sina Dobaradaran agrees to this retraction. Gholamreza Goudarzi, Sahar Geravandi, and Mohammad Javad Mohammadi do not agree to this retraction. Nadali Alavi, Ahmad Reza Yari, Farzaneh Aslanpour Alamdari, Majid Farhadi, Hamed Biglari, Maryam Dastoorpour, and Bayram Hashemzadeh have not responded to any correspondence from the publisher about this retraction.