Assessment of trace element contents of chicken products from turkey

uluözlü o., TÜZEN M., Mendil D., SOYLAK M.

JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS, vol.163, pp.982-987, 2009 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 163
  • Publication Date: 2009
  • Doi Number: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2008.07.050
  • Journal Name: JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.982-987
  • Keywords: Trace element, Chicken, Microwave digestion, Atomic absorption spectroscopy, Turkey, ATOMIC-ABSORPTION-SPECTROMETRY, SOLID-PHASE EXTRACTION, BLACK-SEA REGION, HEAVY-METALS, GRAPHITE-FURNACE, SIMULTANEOUS PRECONCENTRATION, SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC METHOD, ALUMINUM DETERMINATION, SLOVENIAN FOODSTUFFS, SAMPLES
  • Erciyes University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Due to the consumption of chicken and chicken products in Turkey at high ratio, trace metal content of chicken and chicken products from Turkey were determined by atomic absorption spectrometry after microwave digestion. The accuracy of the method was confirmed by analysis of standard reference material (NIST SRM 1577b Bovine liver). Trace element content in various parts of chicken samples and chicken products were to be in the range of 0.10-114 mu g/g for copper, 0.25-6.09 mu g/kg for cadmium, 0.01-0.40 mu g/g for lead, 0.10-0.91 mu g/g for selenium, 0.05-3.91 mu g/g for manganese, 0.06-0.10 mu g/g for arsenic, 0.01-0.72 mu g/g for chromium, 0.01-2.08 mu g/g for nickel, 0.01-0.02 mu g/g for cobalt, 0.10-1.90 mu g/g for aluminium, 1.21-24.3 mu g/g for zinc, 2.91-155 mu g/g for iron. The levels of lead in some analyzed chicken products were higher than the recommended legal limits for human consumption. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.