Health risk assessment of lead and cadmium in Snapper (Lutjanus erythropterus Bloch, 1790) in Imam Hassan seaport.

Subject Areas : Journal of Food Safety and Processing

Saeid Ahmadi ¹ , Mohammad Ebrahimzadeh ² , Abdolrahim Pazira ³ , Seyed Abdolmajid Mousavi ⁴

1 - Department of Fisheries, Bushehr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bushehr, Iran
2 - Department of Biology, Varamin-Pishva Branch, Islamic Azad University, Varamin, Iran
3 - Department of Animal Science, Varamin-Pishva Branch, Islamic Azad University, Varamin, Iran
4 - Department of Animal Science, Varamin-Pishva Branch, Islamic Azad University, Varamin, Iran

Received: 2021-07-14 Accepted : 2021-08-14 Published : 2021-08-23

Keywords: Cadmium, Muscle, Gills, Heavy metals, Keywords: Lead, Snapper,

Abstract :

AbstractDue to industrial activities, water and soil pollution with heavy metals is one of the most critical threats to natural ecosystems and humans. Due to their non-degradability and bioaccumulation properties in living tissues, these metals are moved in the food chain and cause various diseases when they enter the body of consumers. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to evaluate the health risk of nasal metals, and cadmium is in water and Snapper in Imam Hassan port. In this study, 60 samples of common Snapper from the Imam Hassan port of Bushehr were caught by the net and selected. Findings show that the mean concentrations of lead and cadmium in the muscle tissue of average Snapper are 0.903 0 0.021 and 0.348 0 0.045 mg/kg, respectively. Comparison of the results of this study with the standards of the World Health Organization showed that the average concentration of lead and nickel in the muscle tissue of each fish is higher than the permissible level of the World Health Organization, which can be dangerous to human health. According to the results, these metals in the skin and muscle significantly correlated with weight and length. Still, the amount of lead and cadmium in muscle was not significantly correlated with weight and length.