Open AccessHazardous element content and consumption risk of 9 apricot cultivars
Author(s) -
Gholam Hossein Davarynejad,
Safieh Vatandoost,
M. Soltész,
J. Nyéki,
Zoltán Szabó,
Péter Tamás Nagy
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
international journal of horticultural science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2676-931X
pISSN - 1585-0404
DOI - 10.31421/ijhs/16/4/919
Subject(s) - mercury (programming language) , arsenic , cadmium , cultivar , hazard quotient , inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy , prunus armeniaca , health risk , horticulture , chemistry , human health , heavy metals , inductively coupled plasma , environmental science , toxicology , environmental chemistry , biology , environmental health , organic chemistry , medicine , physics , plasma , quantum mechanics , computer science , programming language
The heavy metals pollution is one of the problems that arise due to the increased uses of fertilizers and other chemicals to meet the higher demands of food production for human consumption. In order to assess possible health risk of apricot (Prunus armeniaca L.) consumption, levels of Arsenic, Cadmium, Mercury and Lead were determined in fresh and dried samples of "Jumbo cot", "Tom cot", "Gold strike", "Gold bar", "Bergeron", "Bergarouge", "Sweet cot", "Yellow cot" and "Zebra" apricot cultivars. Wet digestion of samples with concentrate HNO3 – H2O2 digester mixture and inductively coupled plasma–atomic emission spectroscopy was used. Highest content of As, Cd, Hg and Pb among all cultivars, were 0.5, 0.04, 1.5 and 0.5mg/kg of dried apricot samples. Fresh fruit samples also contain 0.2, 0.016, 0.6 and 0.2 mg/kg of Arsenic, Cadmium, Mercury and Lead respectively. Daily intake of metals, hazard quotient and health risk index to reveal health risk possibility of dried and fresh fruits consumption were calculate and compared.