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Abstract For many years environmental pollution has been considered to be a hazard to health and the industrial pollution caused a serious and world widespread damage to the domestic animals. Grazing animals are often a reliable indicator of environmental pollution, either by feed, water or air expo sure; they receive contaminants which are transferred through the food chain to human being. The release of waste products from the super-phosphate fertilizer factory and brick kilns at Kom Hamadah (Behera province) and Kafr ElZayiat (Gharbia province) may become toxic by continuous inhalation and/or ingestion of water and feed contaminated with toxic hazardous compounds. Therefore, the present study has been carried out to evaluate the contribution of fluoride, sulfur and cadmium compounds to the health condition of livestock and to reveal the extent of this pollution danger in the surrounding areas. Our study involved localities in Kom-Hamadah (Kafr Al-Aes, Mansheit Amin Esmaeil and Shabour) which are highly intensive areas with multiple brick kilns, and another localities in Kaft E!-Zayiat (Binüfar, Kafr ElNaseria and Kafr Hashad); containing super-phosphate plant in addition to other factories and several brick kilns, the areas represented different distances and directions from the sources of pollution. During this investigation a random number of available cattle and buffaloes were used for clinical and laboratory assessment. |