Risk assessment of some heavy metals in edible chicken giblets [electronic reource].

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A total of 60 random samples of edible chicken giblets were collected from different markets in Kafr El-Sheikh governorate, Egypt, to evaluate their levels of some heavy metals as Lead, Copper, Zinc and Chromium. The obtained results indicated that the mean values of Lead, Copper, Zinc and Chromium concentrations in liver chicken samples were 0.47 ± 0.08, 5.13 ± 0.59, 5.27 ± 0.59 and 0.38 ±0.08 mg/kg, respectively. While these concentrations in gizzard chicken samples were 0.24 ±0.06, 3.57 ±0.45, 3.15±0.39 and 0.22±0.06, respectively. Also these concentrations in heart chicken samples were 0.09 ± 0.024, 1.77 ± 0.26, 2.23 ± 0.26 and 0 (not detected). So these obtained data were compared with the permissible limits of (FAO/WHO, 1884) and (Egyptian Standard, 1993) and the public health risk of such toxic heavy pollutants metals was discussed.

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