Monitoring of arsenic levels in some ready-to-use anti-malaria herbal products from drug sales outlets in the Madina area of Accra, Ghana
| Autor: | D. Adomako, A.O. Affum, D.O. Shiloh |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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media_common.quotation_subject Population chemistry.chemical_element Mineralogy World Health Organization Toxicology Ghana Arsenic law.invention Antimalarials law parasitic diseases medicine Malaria Falciparum education media_common Detection limit Cadmium education.field_of_study Plants Medicinal Plant Extracts Spectrophotometry Atomic General Medicine medicine.disease Lead chemistry Ready to use Drug Contamination Atomic absorption spectroscopy Malaria Food Science |
| Zdroj: | Food and Chemical Toxicology. 56:131-135 |
| ISSN: | 0278-6915 |
| Popis: | In Ghana anti-malaria herbal medicines or products are used to compliment commercial drugs in treatment and prevention of Plasmodium falciparum infections. In this study, four common aqueous based anti-malaria herbal products (coded HEB, KFE, MDM and NIB) which are used by Ghanaian population from pharmacy/herbal stores in the Madina area, Accra were blindly and randomly sampled for cadmium (Cd), arsenic (As) and Lead (Pb) analysis using Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry technique. Arsenic concentrations were 1.087 μg/mL (108.7%), 1.027 μg/mL (102.7%), 0.330 μg/mL (33.0%) and 0.274 μg/mL (27.4%) in MDM, KFE, NIB and HEB respectively. Arsenic concentration determined in MDM and KFE were above the maximum permissible limit of 1.0 ppm determined by WHO/FAO. Cadmium concentration in each of the four products as well as lead concentration in KFE, NIB and HEB were below the detection limit of |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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