Food safety is an increasing concern, and the rising demands
for this have drawn the attention of researchers to the risks associated with
consuming contaminated vegetables. Health risk assessment is beneficial in
providing information about any threat regarding heavy metal contamination in
vegetables. The concentrations of heavy metals were analysed in over 100 root
vegetables collected from the Romanian area. The inductively coupled plasma
mass spectrometry technique (ICP-MS) was used for the determinations. The risk
associated with the consumption of vegetables was assessed by calculating the
hazard quotient. With only a few exceptions, the estimated daily intake of
heavy metals associated with the radishes, carrots, and potatoes ingestion was
within the provisional tolerable daily intake, indicating that the
concentration of heavy metals received by the body cannot negatively impact
consumers' health.
Author(s) Details:
Cezara Voica,
National Institute for Research and Development for Isotopic and
Molecular Technologies, Cluj Napoca, Romania.
Carmen Roba,
Faculty of
Environmental Science and Engineering, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca,
Romania.
Andreea Maria Iordache,
National Research and Development Institute for Cryogenics and
Isotopic Technologies—ICSI, Ramnicu Vâlcea, Romania.
Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/IBS-V3/article/view/14245
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