scholarly journals Heavy Metals in Several Soybean Varieties Cultivated in the Transylvanian Plain, Romania

2020 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
Rajmund MICHALSKI ◽  
Marcel M. DUDA ◽  
Paula N. ȘERDEAN ◽  
Joanna KERNERT ◽  
Katarzyna GRYGOYC ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Inductively Coupled Plasma ◽  
Optical Emission ◽  
Emission Spectrometry ◽  
Cultivated Plants ◽  
Soybean Seeds ◽  
Toxic Heavy Metals ◽  
Soybean Genotype ◽  
Inductively Coupled ◽  
Cultivated Soybean

Soybeans are species of legume that has become one of the most widely consumed food in the world, because they are easy to cultivate and very beneficial for human health. The quality of the cultivated plants, including the content of toxic heavy metals depends to a large extent on the contaminants present in the soils in which they are grown and the method of fertilization. Through this research we aim to highlight the degree of accumulation of cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, nickel, lead and zinc in relation with the cultivated soybean genotype and fertilization. Three soy varieties (Cristina, Felix and Onix) were cultivated in an experimental field located at Cojocna Experimental Didactic Center of the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca. The above-mentioned heavy metals were determined from the harvested mature soybean seeds using inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry, using an Avio 200 instrument. The obtained results demonstrated that the accumulation of heavy metals in soybean seeds is influenced by the cultivated genotype and fertilization; the Onix variety is more prone to the accumulation of heavy metals, while the highest values of the above listed metals were recorded in the case of fertilizing with „Fertitel”.

scholarly journals Heavy metal contamination and genotoxicity assessment of anthelmintic medicinal plants in Assam, India

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amar Deep Soren ◽  
Arun Kumar Yadav
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Inductively Coupled Plasma ◽  
Heavy Metal Contamination ◽  
Optical Emission ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Emission Spectrometry ◽  
Asparagus Racemosus ◽  
Toxic Heavy Metals ◽  
Inductively Coupled

Abstract Medicinal plants possess several metals obtained naturally or through pollution. The study evaluates the genotoxic potentials and the presence of essential elements and toxic heavy metals in Sesbania sesban var. bicolor (leaves), Cyperus compressus (roots) and Asparagus racemosus (roots), which are used as anthelmintics in the traditional medicine of the Santhals in India. Genotoxicity study was performed as per Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) guidelines in rats. Element contents were evaluated using inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES). Administration of S. sesban var. bicolor (400 mg/kg), C. compressus (700 mg/kg) and A. racemosus (500 mg/kg) did not cause any abnormalities in the chromosomes. Elemental analysis revealed the presence of lead (5.00 ± 0.05, 4.98 ± 0.01, 4.99 ± 0.07 ppm), cadmium (4.99 ± 0.04, 4.90 ± 0.03, 5.00 ± 0.08 ppm) and arsenic (0.98 ± 0.03, 0.41 ± 0.05, 0.92 ± 0.03 ppm), respectively. Although genotoxic potentials were lacking, the presence of toxic heavy metals in them is a cause of concern.

scholarly journals Assessment of Minerals in Phoenix Dactylifera L. as Determined by Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry using ANOVA and PCA

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S3) ◽  
pp. 336-344
Keyword(s):  
Inductively Coupled Plasma ◽  
Optical Emission ◽  
Phoenix Dactylifera ◽  
Optical Emission Spectrometry ◽  
Emission Spectrometry ◽  
Cultivated Plants ◽  
Inductively Coupled ◽  
Minor Elements ◽  
Phoenix Dactylifera L ◽  
Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry

Dates (Phoenix dactylifera L.) is one of mankind’s oldest cultivated plants. It is known to be the most important fruit tree particularly in the Middle Eastern and Asian countries due to its natural sources of nutrition. The element composition of 10 commercially available dates and its pit samples purchased from local market were determined and evaluated using multivariate analysis technique. Samples were digested using nitric acid and hydrochloric acid and analyzed using Inductively Coupled Plasma-Optical Emission Spectrometry (ICP-OES). Potassium, magnesium, calcium and sodium were found to be the major elements in both flesh and pit samples. Comparison between minor elements in both samples showed that the flesh samples contained higher levels of aluminium, barium and selenium while other minor elements were higher in the pit samples. Principal Components Analysis (PCA) and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were performed on multivariate dataset of the flesh and the pit samples separately to observe the relationship between samples

scholarly journals Determination of heavy metals and selenium content in chicken liver at Erbil city, Iraq

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hoshyar Saadi Ali ◽  
Dhary Alewy Almashhadany ◽  
Hawraz Sami Khalid
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Heavy Metal ◽  
Inductively Coupled Plasma ◽  
Heavy Metal Contamination ◽  
Optical Emission ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Chicken Liver ◽  
Poultry Meat ◽  
Emission Spectrometry ◽  
Toxic Heavy Metals

Heavy metal contamination of poultry meat is a critical issue for human health due to associated risks of cytotoxicity and systemic pathologies after ingestion of such metals. A total of twenty chicken liver samples were collected from markets of Erbil city and analyzed for ten heavy metals contents by Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry. The targeted metals were cadmium (Cd), cobalt (Co), chromium (Cr), copper (Cu), manganese (Mn), nickel (Ni), lead (Pb), mercury (Hg), zinc (Zn) and selenium (Se). The average concentrations (mg/kg) of targeted trace elements were 0.06±0.027, 0.06±0.05, 2.05±0.34, 1.85±0.47, 0.15±0.17, and 33.53±5.24 for Co, Cr, Cu, Mn, Ni, and Zn respectively. Copper (Cu) levels significantly exceeded the maximum permissible limit of WHO. Moreover, the average concentrations of toxic heavy metals and selenium were 0.07±0.037, 0.278±0.10, 0.11±0.083, and 2.01±0.454 mg/kg for Cd, Pb, Hg, and Se respectively. Hg and Pb levels exceeded the permissible limits of WHO. Higher levels of Cu and Hg in poultry may pose a serious threat to consumers which demand countermeasures and precautions to be taken. Iraqi Standards Authority and relevant official institutions are strongly recommended to regulate safe disposal of heavy metal waste in the environment to reduce animal exposure to such metals.

scholarly journals Distribution of Selected Heavy Metals Bioaccumulation in Various Parts of Indigenous Rice (Bokilong, Ponsulak and Taragang) in North Borneo

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-69
Author(s):  
Diana Demiyah Mohd Hamdan ◽  
Amirah Syuhada Mohd Azman ◽  
Fazilah Musa ◽  
Mohd Khalizan Sabullah
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Inductively Coupled Plasma ◽  
Environmental Influence ◽  
Optical Emission ◽  
Emission Spectrometry ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
Inductively Coupled ◽  
North Borneo ◽  
Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry ◽  
Element Type

The prospect of three native upland paddy landraces known as Bokilong, Ponsulak and Taragang as heavy metals accumulator for phytoremediation was determined. Bioaccumulation of heavy metals (As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Pb, and Zn) in various parts of paddy plants collected from Kiulu valley, North Borneo in the natural conditions during the vegetative phase and harvest season were analysed by Inductively Coupled Plasma-Optical Emission Spectrometry (ICP-OES). All selected heavy metals were traced in soil samples of all three paddy landraces rhizosphere where the most available heavy metals were Fe followed by Zn. Heavy metals bioavailability in soil seemed to be influenced by the local climate of the cultivation field. Bokilong landrace is an accumulator of As, Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn. Ponsulak paddy can help clean up the soil by phytoextraction of As, Cr, Cu, Fe and Zn. Taragang paddy has a prospect in phytoextraction of Cd and Pb to remediate excess amount of this element in the soil. Different heavy metals concentration trends were accumulated in these three paddy landraces in grain indicated different nutritional values. Heavy metal uptake characteristic differs between upland paddy landraces and there was also environmental influence affecting the mobility rate of these elements in paddy plant depending on the element type and paddy genotype.

Metals in Mytillus galloprovincialis (Lamarck 1819) and Ensis directus (Conrad 1883): Risk Assessment

2018 ◽  
Vol 81 (10) ◽  
pp. 1622-1626 ◽  
Author(s):  
ENRIQUE LOZANO-BILBAO ◽  
SONGLIAN MÉNDEZ ◽  
GONZALO LOZANO ◽  
ARTURO HARDISSON ◽  
DAILOS GONZÁLEZ-WELLER ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Inductively Coupled Plasma ◽  
Optical Emission ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Emission Spectrometry ◽  
Human Consumption ◽  
Toxic Heavy Metals ◽  
Inductively Coupled ◽  
Mediterranean Mussel ◽  
Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry ◽  
Daily Intakes

ABSTRACT The study has been conducted with inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry to determine the content of toxic heavy metals, macroelements, and essential elements in two species of bivalves of commercial interest in the Canary Islands: the Mediterranean mussel (Mytillus galloprovincialis, Lamarck 1819) and the razor clam (Ensis directus, Conrad 1883). The study included 40 samples corresponding to 20 specimens of each species acquired from fishmongers on the island of Tenerife. E. directus had higher levels of metals, except for B, Cd, Na, and Zn (0.98, 0.02, 2,006.93, and 15.07 mg/kg, respectively) compared with those in M. galloprovincialis, B, Cd, Na, and Zn (2.67, 0.12, 2,267.7, and 22.27 mg/kg, respectively). In both bivalve molluscs, the maximum limits established by European legislation on food for human consumption were not exceeded. Likewise, the estimated daily intakes for the toxic metals Pb and Cd were below the admissible daily intakes.

Few heavy metal levels in certain tissues of cattle in Burdur of Turkey

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatma Kocasari ◽  
Ozen Kursun Yurdakul ◽  
Asim Kart ◽  
Halil Yalcin ◽  
Erhan Keyvan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Muscle Tissue ◽  
Inductively Coupled Plasma ◽  
Optical Emission ◽  
Emission Spectrometry ◽  
Inductively Coupled ◽  
Permissible Limits ◽  
Metal Levels ◽  
Liver And Kidney ◽  
Cadmium Lead

In the present study, the occurrence of some heavy metals was determined in muscle, liver and kidney tissues of cattle in Burdur, Turkey. The samples were analyzed for cadmium, lead, arsenics and mercury using Inductively Coupled Plasma-Optical Emission Spectrometry in 50 samples. Concentrations of Cd exceed the permissible limits in 2 samples of muscle tissues (0.05 mg/kg), while the concentrations of Cd in the liver and kidney tissues were below the allowed limits (0.5 mg/kg for liver; 1.0 mg/kg for kidney). One sample in muscle tissue contained Pb above the allowed limit (0.1 mg/kg). Arsenic was detected in one sample of muscle, liver and kidney tissues. Hg was not detected in any of the samples. A high proportion of samples did not contain detectable level of the heavy metals. Except for Cd and Pb in muscle tissue, concentrations of other metals were below the permissible limits.

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