Department of Veterinary Science, University of Parma, Strada Del Taglio 10, 43126 Parma, Italy.
Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell'Emilia Romagna, Reparto Chimico degli Alimenti-Via Pietro Fiorini 5, 40127 Bologna, Italy.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Apr 10;18(8):3989. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18083989.
Game meat is endowed with excellent nutritional value, but it may also be a possible source of harmful substances, such as mycotoxins and heavy metals. In particular, several studies showed that lead fragments from hunting ammunition are able to represent a residual contaminant in the meat of wild boars or deer, representing a possible source of lead absorption. Even though wild boar meat consumption in Italy is rather limited, this meat could also be present in very popular Italian recipes, such as the typical meat sauce called ragù. We evaluated the lead levels in 48 samples (three different batches for each of the 16 brands) of ready-to-eat wild boar meat ragù sold on the Italian market in food stores and online distribution with the inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) technique. A high variability was found in the lead levels detected in the samples, with a median lead level of 0.10 mg/kg (0.01-18.3 mg/kg) and some of the samples showing very high lead concentrations. Since no intake level of lead is considered completely safe, and maximum levels for game meat have so far not been established, a greater attention on the risks to consumers' health related to the presence of this heavy metal in game meat is recommended.
野味具有优异的营养价值，但也可能是有害物质的潜在来源，例如霉菌毒素和重金属。特别是有几项研究表明，狩猎弹药中的铅碎片能够在野猪或鹿肉中残留，成为铅吸收的潜在来源。尽管意大利的野猪肉消费相当有限，但这种肉也可能存在于非常受欢迎的意大利食谱中，例如典型的肉酱 ragù。我们使用电感耦合等离子体质谱法（ICP-MS）技术，评估了在意大利食品店和线上销售的 48 个即食野猪肉酱样品（每个品牌三种不同批次）中的铅含量。结果发现，样本中的铅含量存在很大的差异，中位数为 0.10 毫克/千克（0.01-18.3 毫克/千克），有些样本的铅含量非常高。由于没有完全安全的铅摄入量，而且迄今为止尚未为野味制定最大含量标准，因此建议更加关注这种重金属在野味中的存在对消费者健康的相关风险。
