Essential and toxic heavy metals in cereals and agricultural products marketed in Kermanshah, Iran, and human health risk assessment. Issue 1 (2nd January 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Pirsaheb, Meghdad; Fattahi, Nazir; Sharafi, Kiomars; Khamotian, Razieh; Atafar, Zahra
• Is Part Of: Food additives & contaminants. Volume 9:Issue 1(2016)
• Page Start: 15
• Page End: 20
• Publication Date: 2016-01-02
• Subjects: Heavy metals -- essential metals -- cereals -- estimated weekly intake -- risk assessment -- Kermanshah -- Iran -- inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry -- ICP-OES; Food additives -- Periodicals; Food contamination -- Periodicals; 664.07
• DOI: 10.1080/19393210.2015.1099570
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1939-3210

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Levels of some essential and toxic heavy metals such as lead, cadmium, chromium, nickel, zinc and copper in cereals and agricultural products obtained from the markets in Kermanshah city, west Iran, were determined by inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES). The average concentrations for lead and cadmium in some cereals were higher than the maximum levels set by the Codex Alimentarius. A potential human health risk assessment was conducted by calculating estimated weekly intake (EWI) of the metals from eating cereals and comparison of these values with provisional tolerable weekly intake (PTWI) values. In combination with recent cereal consumption data, the EWIs of heavy metals were calculated for the Kermanshah population. EWI data for the studied metals through cereal consumption were lower than the PTWI values. Cr, Ni, Zn and Cu levels in all samples analysed were within the ranges reported for similar cereals from various parts of the world.