Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, The University of the West Indies , St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.
Food Addit Contam Part B Surveill. 2020 Sep;13(3):207-214. doi: 10.1080/19393210.2020.1762759. Epub 2020 May 21.
The increase in urbanisation and industrialisation have contributed significantly to elevated concentrations of heavy metals in soils. The eventual uptake of heavy metals by agronomic crops could potentially affect human health based on consumption patterns in various regions of the globe. This study investigated the potential health risks to consumers of dried legumes in a small island developing state that rely primarily on the importation of those crops from major producers. Several varieties were analysed for selected heavy metals in which Cd and Pb were not detected and Cr was only present in certain legumes. The concentrations of Cu, Mn, Ni, and Zn were all below the established World Health Organisation (WHO) maximum permissible limit (MPL) and the target hazard quotient (THQ) and hazard index (HI) values were below one for all samples, suggesting no non-carcinogenic risk to consumers.
城市化和工业化的发展导致土壤中重金属浓度显著升高。根据全球不同地区的消费模式，农业作物对重金属的最终吸收可能会对人类健康产生影响。本研究调查了一个主要依赖从主要生产国进口这些作物的小岛屿发展中国家消费者食用干豆的潜在健康风险。对几种选定的重金属进行了分析，结果表明 Cd 和 Pb 未被检出，Cr 仅存在于某些豆类中。Cu、Mn、Ni 和 Zn 的浓度均低于世界卫生组织（WHO）规定的最大允许限量（MPL）和目标危害系数（THQ）和危害指数（HI）值均低于 1，表明对消费者没有非致癌风险。
