A TOTAL DIET STUDY OF PESTICIDES AND CONTAMINANTS FOR SOME TABLE READY DIETS IN GREAT CAIRO IN 2002 | ||
| Journal of Animal and Poultry Production | ||
| Article 3, Volume 29, Issue 1, January 2004, Pages 39-49 PDF (158.05 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jappmu.2004.238990 | ||
| Authors | ||
| E. Y. Salama,; M. M. Ayoub; Mona A. Khorshid | ||
| Central laboratory of Analysis of Pesticide Residues and Heavy Metals in Food. Agriculture Research Center, Ministry of Agriculture, 7 Nadi EI·said, Dokki· Giza. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| A total diet study estimated the dietary intake of 80 organochlorine, organophosphorous, organonitrogen, and some pyrethroid pesticides, lead cadmium, copper and nitrates. Thirty·three of (table ready) diets were collected from cafeterias and restaurants in great Cairo during the year 2002. The study depends on the nalional food consumption data from the Institute of Nutrition, Ministry of Health. The overall results show that there is no significant environmental contamination of the average Egyptian diet. OrganochlOrine pesticide residues show no dietary intake while organophosphorous contaminates the diet at very low amounts from chlorpyrifos, cnlorpyrifos-rna and profenophos. Conceming the contamination of the total diet by heavy metals as general reveals no exceeding for the corresponding PMADI or PTWI established by the World Health Organization (WHO). The contamination of the diet by Cu, Cd and Pb was 3.7%, 3.5% and 3.2% respectively while nitrates contributed with 25.7% of the AD!. In conclusIon we can consider the studied diets as safe and clean taking into consideration that the daily intake of potato chips. liver. fatafel and medames should be decreased its daily intakes. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Pesticides. residues; heavy metals; nitrates; table ready. total diet | ||
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