Dietary mercury in the Glasgow area

Cross, Jamie; Dale, I. M.; Smith, Hamilton; Smith, L. B.

doi:10.1007/bf02519782

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“…However, Zabel et al (1978) calculated that a breast-fed-only baby receives 1 l-17 p,g Se/ day while a baby on a formula diet obtains 8-31 pg Se/day and a child (0.5-15 years old) gets 42-121 pg Se/day. Cross et al (1978) on the other hand calculated 46 pg Se/day for babies consuming processed baby foods. A daily selenium intake of ca 50 and 200 kg/adult is regarded as low and adequate, respectively (Watkinson, 1974;Thompon et al, 1975).…”

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“…A daily selenium intake of ca 50 and 200 kg/adult is regarded as low and adequate, respectively (Watkinson, 1974;Thompon et al, 1975). Although the minimum daily selenium intake to prevent deficiency diseases in humans is not yet known, there is some evidence that this might be ca 30 pg/adult (Levander, 1976;Thorn et al, 1978;Cross et al, 1978). Nevertheless, this does not mean that the human body is that well equipped to sustain attacks from agents which cause cancer or other diseases.…”

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“…The selenium content of various foods has been determined for a few countries or regions such as Bangladesh (Bieri and Ahmad, 1976), Benin (Cresta et al, 1976), Canada (Arthur, 1972), Egypt (Askar and Bielig, 1983), Germany (Oelschlager and Menke, 1969), Japan (Suzuki et al, 1970;Yasumoto et al, 1976), New Zealand (Watkinson, 1974), Spain (Dominguez et al, 1983), U.K. (Thorn et al, 1978;Cross et al, 1978), Ukranian S.S.R. (Suchkov, 1971), U.S.A. (Morris and Levander, 1970;Schroeder et al, 1970;Moxon and Palmquist, 1980;Lane et al, 1983;Olson and Palmer, 1984), and Venezuela (Mondragon and Jaffe, 1976).…”

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Selenium in Foods Produced and Consumed in Greece

Bratakos

Zafiropoulos

Siskos

et al. 1987

Journal of Food Science

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The total selenium within a wide variety (3 15 food items) of Greek foods was determined fluorimetrically. Rich selenium sources were the proteinaceous foods such as fish, meat, bread, and spaghetti. Butter, oils, vegetables, and fruits were poor sources. The selenium content of Greek foods was lower than that of many other countries and resembled more closely that of British foods. From available food consumption data and values in this study, it was estimated that the daily selenium intake of Greeks was 110 pg.

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Selenium in Foods Produced and Consumed in Greece

Bratakos

Zafiropoulos

Siskos

et al. 1987

Journal of Food Science

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“…The data on daily Se-intake in adults in different countries vary between 6 and 70 pg in New Zealand [13,22], 60 gg in England [21], 100 t-tg in Japan [14], 60-150~tg in the U.S.A. [16], 113-2201,tg in Canada [18] and 234 gg in Scotland [2]. We still do not know which level is optimal.…”

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Selenium requirements in patients with inborn errors of amino acid metabolism and selenium deficiency

Lombeck

Kasperek²,

Bachmann

et al. 1980

Eur J Pediatr

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The diets of 5 patients with phenylketonuria of maple-syrup-urine disease were supplemented with yeast which was rich in selenium. For 120 days the patients received 45 micrograms Se/day to increase the Se content of their diets to 10--12 ng Se/Kjoule. Before supplementation the selenium content of serum (5--15 ng/ml) and whole blood (10--27 ng/ml), and the activity of the erythrocyte glutathione peroxidase (0.19--2.69 U37/g Hb), amounted to only 10--20% of normal. The serum selenium content reached normal values within 4 weeks of supplementation, followed by normalisation of the selenium content of whole blood within 4--8 weeks. Restoration of the activity of erythrocyte glutathione peroxidase took 9 to 15 weeks--the red cell life span. There was a significant positive correlation between the selenium content of the erythrocytes and the activity of erythrocyte glutathione peroxidase.

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“…Bromine has been suspected to be an essential element to man [Cross et al, 1978] but no well-known function was at tributed to its presence in the hard dental tissues. The major intakes of Br into the body are: food, drugs and airborne sources; but the element does not accumu late in any particular body tissue or fluid [Underwood, 1977].…”

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