Determination of heavy metals in albumen of hen eggs from the Markazi Province (Iran) using ICP-OES technique |
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| Authors: | Shima Farahani Navid Eshghi Abolfazl Abbasi Fereshteh Karimi Ebadallah Shiri Malekabad |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Food Hygiene, Arak University of Applied Science and Technology, Arak, Iran,;2. Department of Microbiology, College of Science, Saveh Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Saveh, Iran,;3. Department of Food Safety and Hygiene and;4. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran |
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| Abstract: | Increase of distribution of environmental contaminants such as heavy metals have been caused the knowledge of the safety and hygiene of food is very important, especially eggs, because of its role in the daily diet. There are very few studies about the investigation of the heavy metal contents in egg-white. In this study, six heavy metals include Aluminium (Al), Arsenic (As), Lead (Pb), Cadmium (Cd), Mercury (Hg), Antimony (Sb) in egg-white from 32 industrial poultry farms were investigated, by ICP-OES. All the samples were collected in all area of Markazi Province, Iran in autumn 2013. The mean concentrations of heavy metals in egg-white as follows: 0.119 for Al, 0.785 for As, 0.750 for Pb, 0.249 for Cd, 0.270 for Hg and 0.186?mg/kg for Sb. Also, the concentration of the some heavy metals were higher than maximum allowable concentration that probably it is associated to use pesticides and activities of industrial factories around the poultry farms. |
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| Keywords: | Albumen egg-white food safety heavy metals hen eggs ICP-OES |
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