Heavy Metal Exposure from Foods

By Mahaffey, Kathryn R.

Book Id: WPLBN0000132856
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 0.3 MB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Heavy Metal Exposure from Foods
Author:	Mahaffey, Kathryn R.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, United Nations., United Nations. Office for Disarmament Affairs
Collections:	Government Library Collection, Disarmament Documents
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Publisher:	United Nations- Office for Disarmament Affairs (Unoda)


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Government Reference Publication

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Excerpt: Determination of the heavy metal content of foods has been carried out by various laboratories of the Food and Drug dministrationfo r a number of years. The data discussed were obtained from the Total Diet Survey program, or as it is better known, the Market Basket Survey. The program was originally designed to monitor the levels of various pesticides in foods and has been ongoing since 1965. In the last few years it has been expanded to include analyses for six heavy metals: lead, cadmium, mercury, zinc, arsenic, and se1enium.t Lead, zinc, and selenium have been determined only since 1972, whereas data from earlier years are also available for the other three metals. A major purpose of this program has been to determine the levels of heavy metals in foods, or more specifically, to determine trends of increasing or decreasing levels of metals in various foods or food classes.