Risk of exposure to total and inorganic arsenic by meat intake among different age groups from Brazil: a probabilistic assessment

Azevedo, Lucas Silva; Pestana, Inácio Abreu; Meneguelli-Souza, Annaliza Carvalho; Ramos, Bruno de Souza; Pessanha, Daniel Ribeiro; Caldas, Dayana; Almeida, Marcelo Gomes de; Souza, Cristina Maria Magalhães de

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“…This increase caused five chilled and seven frozen samples to surpass the acceptable HI limit. Prolonged exposure to Pb is associated with several health issues including hemolytic anemia, atherosclerosis, osteoporosis, liver apoptosis, ovarian atrophy, pathological organ changes, central nervous system (CNS) impairment, and renal toxicity ( Adeyemi et al , 2009 ; Shaheen et al , 2016 ; Wehedy et al , 2018 ), while continued exposure to As over time leads to inflammatory, degenerative, and neoplastic alterations in various systems within the body, including the cardiovascular, nervous, reproductive, respiratory, and hematopoietic systems ( Faires, 2004 ; Azevedo et al , 2018 ; Živkov Baloš et al , 2019 ; Okoye et al , 2022 ).…”

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Detection and health risk assessment of toxic heavy metals in chilled and frozen meat collected from Sharkia province in Egypt

Mohamed,

Yahya,

Bayoumi

et al. 2023

Open Vet J

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Background: The consumption of meat is a fundamental aspect of global diets, providing essential nutrients and proteins vital for human nutrition. However, ensuring the safety of meat products has become progressively challenging due to potential contamination by toxic heavy metals and pathogenic microorganisms. Aim: This study focuses on assessing the prevalence of Lead (Pb), Mercury (Hg), Arsenic (As), and Cadmium (Cd), in chilled and frozen meat in Sharkia Governorate, Egypt. Methods: A total of 30 samples, comprising 15 chilled and 15 frozen beef samples, were collected from various marketing stores in Sharkia. Analysis of toxic metals was conducted via atomic absorption spectrophotometer following wet digestion. Results: The average levels (mg/kg) in chilled meat samples were found to be 0.64 ± 0.14 for Pb, undetectable for Hg, 0.02 ± 0.14 for Cd, and 4.66 ± 0.57 for As. In frozen samples, the average concentrations were 0.89 ± 0.21 for Pb, 0.08 ± 0.03 for Hg, 0.02 ± 0.004 Cd, and 5.32 ± 0.59 for As. Generally, the levels of heavy metals in frozen meat samples were observed to be higher than chilled samples. Importantly, the levels of Pb were higher than maximum residual concentrations (MPL) in 53.3% of the chilled and 66.6% of the frozen, Cd levels in chilled and frozen were within the permissible concentrations in all samples, Hg was not identified in all the chilled and in 67% of frozen samples, and As levels were higher than the permissible levels in all samples chilled and frozen. The assessment of human health risk for adults revealed an estimated daily intake (EDI) value of beef meat below the threshold of the oral reference dose (RFD) for all analyzed metals except for As, where 46.7% of chilled samples and 60% of frozen samples exceeded the RFD. Furthermore, both the Hazard Quotient (THQ) for As and Hazard Index (HI) for all the analyzed metals were above 1 in 33.3% of chilled samples and 46.7% of frozen samples. Conclusion: This indicates the remarkable adverse effects on human health associated with the consumption of meat of elevated levels of heavy metals, emphasizing the need for stringent quality control measures within the food industry.

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Detection and health risk assessment of toxic heavy metals in chilled and frozen meat collected from Sharkia province in Egypt

Mohamed,

Yahya,

Bayoumi

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Open Vet J

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“…Treatment groups 1 and 3 also presented behavioral changes, hair loss, and keratosis on the nose and mouth. Some studies refer to the epidemiological significance of arsenic exposure via the water consumed by goats, cows and other species [30,31], highlighting the transmission of this metalloid to humans in high value food products derived from these livestock species, with some of the products described as having high arsenic concentrations including milk, meat, and cheese [32][33][34][35][36]. Moreover, products manufactured from goat and sheep milk, such as yogurt, have be shown to contain metals such as arsenic [37].…”

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Toxicity in Goats Exposed to Arsenic in the Region Lagunera, Northern Mexico

Ortega-Morales

Cueto-Wong

Barrientos-Juárez

et al. 2020

Veterinary Sciences

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The Region Lagunera, a region in northeast Mexico, is undergoing significant problems with the quality of its groundwater, which exceeds the permissible limits of contaminants and/or heavy metals stipulated in Mexican legislation. The present study evaluated chronic toxicity in male goats exposed to arsenic via one ex situ Group 1 (n = 5) and one in situ female goats Group 3 (n = 10). The treatment in Group 1 was carried out in the La Laguna experimental field of the Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias (INIFAP), located in Matamoros, Coahuila, Mexico. Sodium arsenite (2 mg/kg) was orally administered for 84 days to five male Creole goats, aged between four and five years old and weighing between 60 and 70 kg, in order to determine its effect on urine toxicity, libido, and physiological condition, an untreated group (n = 5) was included (Group 2). The experiment in group 3 was conducted on ten female Creole goats, aged between four and six years old and weighing between 40 and 49 kg, in both the contaminated sampling area in the rural community of El Venado and the control sampling area in the rural community of Nuevo Reynosa (Group 4 (n = 5)), in which the arsenic levels were measured in the urine of the exposed goats, as was their physiological condition. Significant differences (p < 0.01) between the groups were found in both the arsenic concentration in the urine and the physiological condition observed in both experimental groups.

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