Abstract: Human health are directly affected by Metal pollution due to waterways which can have effects over food chain. The polluted water will have the accumulation of trace metals which causes the impact on living organisms of sea that is consumed as food. This study is required for the analysis of those metals which are toxic namely Pb and Cd and the essential metals of dietary for four different brands processed from cans of tuna species are Zn and Mn in 120 in India and the observation of pollution in tuna products is critical for humans due to safety of food mercury (Hg), lead (Pb) and cadmium (Cd). The pollutants like Hg, Pb and Cd has been observed for 60 specimens of tuna in a total. The contents of metal present in the samples are expressed in terms of mggÿ1 wet weight, for mercury the values differed from 0.20 to 0.66 with a median value of 0.29, from 0.09 to 0.32 with a median value of cadmium is 0.18 and from 0.18 to 0.40 with a median value of lead is 0.28. This study signifies with the results of tuna from the southern coastal region of India have the permissible levels of concentrations which is below these toxic metals. For the contribution of the body burden can therefore be considered negligible.
Keywords: Tuna fish, spices, toxicological content.
Title: ANALYSIS OF TOXICOLOGICAL CONTENT AVAILABLE IN TUNA FISH SPECIES AT SOUTHERN COASTAL REGION OF INDIA
Author: I. Gayathri, Dr. A. Shajahan
International Journal of Life Sciences Research
ISSN 2348-313X (Print), ISSN 2348-3148 (online)
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