Potential Health Risk Assessment of Different Heavy Metals in Wheat Products

AuthorKiandokht Ghanatien
AuthorFarid Zayerien
AuthorHedayat Hosseinien
Issued Date2019-10-31en
AbstractIn the present work, health risk of heavy metals such as As, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Hg, Ni, Pb, and Zn in Iranian urban and rural samples including wheat, wheat flour, bread, pasta and sweets were assessed. The real amount of heavy metals in target samples were determined by inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES) and atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS). Wet ashing and hydride generation techniques were used in sample preparation step. Results demonstrated that heavy metal contaminations in cereal samples were significant. The average concentrations of heavy metals in wheat products were between 0.01 mg kg−1 to 46 mg kg−1. Finally, the health risk assessment results showed that heavy metal contents in rural samples were higher than those in urban samples. The risk of Cu and Zn was significant in two areas and risk of Cr and Cd was not significant.en
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.22037/ijpr.2019.1100865en
URIhttps://brieflands.com/journals/ijpr/articles/126274en
KeywordHealth risk assessmenten
KeywordHeavy metalen
KeywordWheat productsen
KeywordInductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometryen
KeywordAtomic absorption spectrometryen
PublisherBrieflandsen
TitlePotential Health Risk Assessment of Different Heavy Metals in Wheat Productsen
TypeOriginal Articleen

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