Estimation of dietary intake of arsenic in the general population of the Republic of Croatia

Sapunar-Postružnik, Jasenka; Bažulić, Davorin; Kubala, Helena

doi:10.1016/0048-9697(96)05253-9

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“…In a study of total As intake from Croatian foods, the overall dietary intake was very low (11.7 lg/person/day) and the highest mean concentration of As was recorded in fish (498 lg/kg), Environ Geochem Health (2009) 31:143-166 145 Schoof et al (1999) Snake gourd b Bangladesh 489 Alam et al (2003) followed by fishery products (270 lg/kg) and dairy products (39 lg/kg), while the lowest mean concentrations of As were detected in fruit, chocolate, and fruit products, being 0.2, 0.2, and 0.3 lg/kg respectively (Sapunar-Postruznik et al 1996). Inorganic As concentration in milk ranged from 1 to 160 lg/kg (Sekhar et al 2003).…”

Section: Arsenic In Foods and Watermentioning

confidence: 95%

“…In the latter case, fish is known to be high in As, but usually in nontoxic organic forms, and is therefore not considered to be a significant threat to human health. Scant research has currently been conducted to extensively analyze As in the food chain by collecting various foods to identify and evaluate human exposure to As (Sapunar-Postruznik et al 1996;Bae et al 2002;Roychowdhury et al 2002;Alam et al 2003;Duxbury et al 2003;Roychowdhury et al 2003;Das et al 2004;Islam et al 2004a, b;Sekhar et al 2003;Watanabe et al 2004;Al Rmalli et al 2005). In this section the As content of various food chain components including water, rice, and vegetables will be reviewed.…”

Section: Arsenic In the Food Chainmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…It was observed that Croatia had the lowest dietary intake compared with any other country. On the basis of the level of As consumption of the sample food, the estimated mean weekly dietary intake of As for the Croatian population was 81.9 lg/person/week and a corresponding daily intake of 11.7 lg/person was calculated on the basis of per capita consumption, amount, and level of As (Sapunar-Postruznik et al 1996). However, this study did not consider the frequency with which foods were consumed by each person in the calculation of total dietary intake of As, and their total dietary intake value was constructed based on weekly consumption rather than daily consumption.…”

Section: Arsenic Intake Via Rice Consumptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Human arsenic exposure and risk assessment at the landscape level: a review

Khan

Owens

Bruce

et al. 2009

Environ Geochem Health

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Groundwater contaminated with arsenic (As), when extensively used for irrigation, causes potentially long term detrimental effects to the landscape. Such contamination can also directly affect human health when irrigated crops are primarily used for human consumption. Therefore, a large number of humans are potentially at risk worldwide due to daily As exposure. Numerous previous studies have been severely limited by small sample sizes which are not reliably extrapolated to large populations or landscapes. Human As exposure and risk assessment are no longer simple assessments limited to a few food samples from a small area. The focus of more recent studies has been to perform risk assessment at the landscape level involving the use of biomarkers to identify and quantify appropriate health problems and large surveys of human dietary patterns, supported by analytical testing of food, to quantify exposure. This approach generates large amounts of data from a wide variety of sources and geographic information system (GIS) techniques have been used widely to integrate the various spatial, demographic, social, field, and laboratory measured datasets. With the current worldwide shift in emphasis from qualitative to quantitative risk assessment, it is likely that future research efforts will be directed towards the integration of GIS, statistics, chemistry, and other dynamic models within a common platform to quantify human health risk at the landscape level. In this paper we review the present and likely future trends of human As exposure and GIS application in risk assessment at the landscape level.

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Section: Arsenic In Foods and Watermentioning

confidence: 95%

Section: Arsenic In the Food Chainmentioning

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Section: Arsenic Intake Via Rice Consumptionmentioning

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Human arsenic exposure and risk assessment at the landscape level: a review

Khan

Owens

Bruce

et al. 2009

Environ Geochem Health

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“…Concerning plants growing on contaminated soils of Egypt, several investigators studied the accumulation of heavy metals in these plants. ElSabbagh (79) found that Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn were accumulated in vegetable plants growing on contaminated soils in industrial area. Vegetables Cd ranged from 0.03-0.34 mg/100g.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigation and Evaluation on Heavy Metal Contaminations of Green Salads and Potato Fried in Different Restaurants and Fresh Vegetables in Some Egyptian Governorates

El-Rahman¹

2015

IJEMA

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The content of Cd, Pb, Al, and As in fresh vegetables, green salads and potato fried purchased from the Egyptian market and restaurant were determined using atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS).The results of this study showed that there was wide variation in the concentration of these metals in vegetables collected from different sites. The highest Cd level in watercress (8.33 mg/Kg) was found in Cairo. Vegetables grown in Cairo and Alexandria had cadmium many folds higher than those of other towns. Lead concentration in potato of Alexandria is more than permitted level. Aluminium (Al) content was high concentration in all vegetable samples and arsenic (As) concentration mostly was appeared in potato. Analytical results indicated that the concentration of Cd, Pb, and As in green salad samples were so few. The highest concentration of Al was detected in salad collected from popular restaurant 8. The results show that the heavy metal content in unprocessed potato appears to be much higher than that in processed potato. The highest levels of Cd, Pb, and Al were detected in popular restaurant 9. Cd and As contents of international chain restaurant 1 were found in high level (2.958 and 0.95mg/Kg).

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“…The highest As intake is consequently achieved by the consumption of fish and cheese and dairy products (Sapunar-Postruznik et al 1996), with a generally lower intake of fishery products. As in archaic Etruria, sheep and goats usually constituted more than half the livestock, and their meat and milk (in the form of cheese) took an important place in the diet; food was certainly an important potential source of As poisoning in the Etruscan diet.…”

Section: Animalsmentioning

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Metallurgy, environmental pollution and the decline of Etruscan civilisation

Harrison

Cattani

Turfa

2009

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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We call for archaeologists and curators to test any available human and animal remains in their museums and collections for evidence of heavy metal poisoning, taking due caution and consideration of course to the relevance of the aristocracy, and urge the application of analytical techniques developed in response to this serious modern problem, to provide additional insights into the ancient situation.

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Estimation of dietary intake of arsenic in the general population of the Republic of Croatia

Cited by 31 publications

References 9 publications

Human arsenic exposure and risk assessment at the landscape level: a review

Human arsenic exposure and risk assessment at the landscape level: a review

Investigation and Evaluation on Heavy Metal Contaminations of Green Salads and Potato Fried in Different Restaurants and Fresh Vegetables in Some Egyptian Governorates

Metallurgy, environmental pollution and the decline of Etruscan civilisation

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