Study on some trace elements content of certain internal organs and muscles of porkers

✍ Scribed by Krelowska-Kułas, M.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 240 KB
• Volume: 34
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0027-769X
• DOI: 10.1002/food.19900341003

✦ Synopsis

The aim of the investigations was the determination of the lead, cadmium, copper, zinc and iron content, It was found that lead and cadmium content in the kidneys and livers of porkers from the Cracow region was several times higher than in the case of porkers from an agricultural region (control). The average lead concentration in 35';b of kidneys and livers coming from the porkers of the Cracow region exceeded the permissible norm.

Industrialization and technization of the everyday life and, consequently, an increase of energetics, metallurgy and motorization are the main causes of a harmful environmental contamination, accompanied by a number of negative phenomena, especially of health character 11 1. Being one of the elements of man's environment, food is exposed to the penetration of such harmful elements as lead and cadmium [2, 61. In the light of various data such inevitable elements as copper, zinc and iron require constant testing due to the fact that the nourishing dose is very close to the harmful one [12,14]. The contamination of the environment with heavy metals has been increasing recently [7-9, 141. Therefore, the control of the metal content in various is necessary. The aim of the investigations was the determination of the lead, cadmium, copper, zinc and iron content in some of the internal organs and muscles of porkers.