Food Supplements for Weight Loss: Risk Assessment of Selected Impurities
| Autor: | José Brito, Tânia Fernandes, Isabel Costa, Alexandra Figueiredo, Luísa L. Gonçalves |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Hazard index trace elements lcsh:TX341-641 Food Contamination 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Risk Assessment Article Toxicology 03 medical and health sciences Human health hazard index Weight loss Food Labeling Food supplements Weight Loss Medicine media_common.cataloged_instance Humans European union 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common Trace elements Manganese 030505 public health Nutrition and Dietetics business.industry Potential risk Europe food supplements Spectrometry Fluorescence Food supplement Lead Dietary Supplements medicine.symptom 0305 other medical science business Risk assessment lcsh:Nutrition. Foods and food supply Food Analysis Food Science |
| Zdroj: | Nutrients Volume 12 Issue 4 Nutrients, Vol 12, Iss 954, p 954 (2020) Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC)-FCT-Sociedade da Informação instacron:RCAAP |
| ISSN: | 2072-6643 |
| Popis: | This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Nowadays, food supplements are widely consumed, often without any medical supervision. In this study, 25 food supplements for weight loss, randomly purchased from five different suppliers in the European Union, were analysed by Wavelength Dispersive X ray Fluorescence spectrometry (WDXRF). The aim of this study was the risk assessment of trace elements and the mixture of elements present in food supplements for weight loss. The obtained Hazard Index (0.11) showed no potential risk of non-carcinogenic effects to human health. However, since humans are frequently exposed by different routes and/or sources to toxic metals, the additional consumption of these products may cause potential toxicological risks that cannot be ignored. In one analysed food supplement (FS), the simultaneous presence of Pb and Mn in high concentrations was detected. In two, FS chromium concentrations were above the reference daily dose. Unconformities were detected between the labelled and the detected values, which emphasises the misinformation of labels. This highlights the need for a deeper surveillance of food supplements. info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |
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