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Cadmium and mercury in cephalopod molluscs: Estimated weekly intake
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Storelli, Maria Maddalena Giacominelli-Stuffler, R. Storelli, Arianna Marcotrigiano, Giuseppe Onofrio |
| Copyright Year | 2006 |
| Abstract | Cadmium and mercury concentrations were measured in the flesh and hepatopancreas of different species of cephalopod molluscs (European squid, common octopus, curled octopus, horned octopus, pink cuttlefish, common cuttlefish) in order to establish whether the concentrations exceeded the maximum levels fixed by the European Commission. In hepatopancreas, the levels of cadmium were substantially higher than those in flesh (flesh 0.11–0.87 µg g−1 wet weight, hepatopancreas 2.16–9.39 µg g−1 wet weight), whilst the levels of mercury (flesh 0.13–0.55 µg g−1 wet weight, hepatopancreas 0.23–0.79 µg g−1) were approximately double those in flesh. Concentrations exceeding the maximum permitted limit of cadmium were found in 39.8 and 41.0% of common octopus and pink cuttlefish flesh, respectively. For mercury, concentrations above the limit were found only in octopuses, and precisely in 36.8, 50.0 and 20.0% of flesh samples of common, curled and horned octopus, respectively. In the hepatopancreas, concentrations of cadmium and mercury were above the proposed limits in all the samples examined. The estimated weekly intake of between 0.09 and 0.49 µg kg−1 body weight for cadmium and between 0.05 and 0.24 µg kg−1 body weight for mercury made only a small contribution to the provisional tolerable weekly intake (cadmium 1.3–7.0%, mercury 1.0–4.8%) set by the WHO. |
| Starting Page | 25 |
| Ending Page | 30 |
| Page Count | 6 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1080/02652030500242023 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://eurekamag.com/pdf/004/004404029.pdf |
| PubMed reference number | 16393811 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1080/02652030500242023 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 23 |
| Journal | Food additives and contaminants |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
