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INVESTIGATION OF THE HEAVY METALS CONTENT OF SOME FOOD PRODUCTS BY USING ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY•


MAGDALENA MITITELU 1 *, FLORICA NICOLESCU2, CORINA IONITA 1, ANA BANCESCU 3, ELENA DOGARU 1, LUCIAN HĂŽNCU 4
(1)“CAROL DAVILA” MEDICINE AND PHARMACY UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF CLINIC LABORATORY AND NUTRITION HYGIENE, 6, TRAIAN VUIA STREET, SECT. 1, BUCHAREST, ROMANIA (2)“CAROL DAVILA” MEDICINE AND PHARMACY UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF TOXICOLOGY, 6, TRAIAN VUIA STRE

Issue:

SCSCC6, Volume IX, No. 1

Section:

Volume IX, No. 1 (2008)

Abstract:

The content of some heavy metals (Cd, Pb, Cu and Zn) in some food products – beef, milk, and cheese – obtained from a rural farm located in Voroveni, Arges, Romania has been investigated. At the same time, parallel investigations were done on samples of grassland soil. Atomic absorption spectrometry (GBC-Avanta) has been used to determinate the concentration of heavy metals: Cd (? = 228.8), Cu (? = 324.7), Zn (? = 213.9), Pb (? = 217 nm). It has been observed that the concentration of these heavy metals exceeds the accepted limit values, both in food and soil.

Keywords:

heavy metals, atomic absorption spectrometry, food products.

Code [ID]:

CSCC6200809V01S01A0009 [0002059]

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