Lead Dietary Intake in a Spanish Population (Canary Islands)
- 7 July 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
- Vol. 53 (16), 6543-6549
- https://doi.org/10.1021/jf058027v
Abstract
For most people diet is the main route of exposure to trace metals, so information about dietary intake is also important to assess risks to human health for these elements. The purpose of this study was to determine the levels of Pb in the foods and drinks of highest consumption in the authors' our community to estimate daily intakes of Pb for each of the seven Canary Islands. Four hundred and twenty samples were analyzed using GFAAS. The total Pb intake of the Canarian population is 72.8 μg/day, 29.12% (for a person of 70 kg body weight) of the provisional tolerable weekly intake limit of 25 μg/kg fixed by the FAO/WHO. The island that presents the highest lead intake is La Gomera, followed by Lanzarote, Tenerife, and Gran Canaria islands. These four islands present a lead dietary intake over the mean Pb intake for the whole archipelago. The islands with lower Pb intakes are La Palma and Fuerteventura, with intakes under 70 μg/day. These results have also been compared with the values found for other national and international communities. Keywords: Lead; AAS; dietary intake; Spanish populationKeywords
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