Authors: József Lehel Péter Laczay Adrienn Gyurcsó Ferenc Jánoska Szilvia Majoros Katalin Lányi Miklós Marosán
Publish Date: 2015/10/28
Volume: 23, Issue: 5, Pages: 4465-4472
Abstract
The study was performed on 20 10 males 10 females roe deer Capreolus capreolus to investigate the concentration of cadmium lead mercury and arsenic in the muscle tissue They reside in forest and meadow about 50 km distance from industrial activities and traffic Samples were taken from the musculus biceps femoris of each deer without external contamination after shooting during the regular hunting season on a hunting area close to Eger in Hungary The determination of heavy metal contents was carried out by inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry ICPOES The statistical analysis was performed by statistical package for the social sciences SPSS version 110 The measured residue concentration of cadmium was below the limit of detection in the roe deer meat indicating no health risk for the consumers The average lead concentration 048 ± 021 mg/kg wet weight exceeded the regulated maximum limit but its calculated weekly intake was below the provisional tolerable weekly intake PTWI The residue level of mercury is not regulated and the average mercury content of roe deer meat 087 ± 040 mg/kg wet weight was about half of PTWI but the consumption of meat with the highest detected concentrations results in higher PTWI than recommended The measured concentration of arsenic 027 ± 020 mg/kg wet weight in the roe deer meat may not pose any health risk for the human consumers according to the PTWI set by the World Health Organization
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