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Heavy Metals in Some Egyptian Foods

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Food Science and technology

Abstract

Environmental pollution is one of the major problems which create health hazard to human and animals. Heavy  metals are one of the most important reasons of this pollution. The objective of the present study was to determine concentration levels of some heavy metals  namely nickel, cobalt, zinc, copper, cadmium, lead,  chromium and iron in some Egyptian foods. The obtained  results showed that most of Egyptian foods available in the local market had a higher concentrations of heavy metals in comparison with the FAO (1983), WHO (2000) and FDA (2001)

DOI

10.21608/asejaiqjsae.2008.3177

Keywords

Heavy metals, Egyptian foods, contaminants

Authors

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Samia

Last Name

EL-Safy.F

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Food Science and Technology Dept., Faculty of Home Economics Tanta, Al-Azhar Univ.,Egypt

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Samiha

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M.El-Sayed

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Food Science and Technology Dept., Faculty of Home Economics Tanta, Al-Azhar Univ.,Egypt

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Volume

29

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January-March

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555

Issue Date

2008-01-01

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2007-12-05

Publish Date

2008-03-30

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1

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15

Print ISSN

1110-0176

Online ISSN

2536-9784

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53

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Alexandria Science Exchange Journal

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22 Jan 2023