Levels of Cadmium in White and Brown Meat of Warty Crab (Eriphia verrucosa)
| Autor: | Raffaele Marrone, D. Cacace, A. Lo Voi, Massimiliano D'Ambola, Andrea Ariano, Lorella Severino |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Ariano, Andrea, Lo Voi, A., D'Ambola, Massimiliano, Marrone, Raffaele, Cacace, D., Severino, Lorella |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Meat animal structures Brachyura White meat chemistry.chemical_element Food Contamination Toxicology Risk Assessment Microbiology Animal science Limit of Detection Animals Food Industry media_common.cataloged_instance European Union European union Microwaves Shellfish Eriphia verrucosa media_common Cadmium biology Muscles Spectrophotometry Atomic food and beverages biology.organism_classification Crustacean body regions Fishery White (mutation) Italy chemistry Food Science Food contaminant |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Food Protection. 78:2253-2256 |
| ISSN: | 0362-028X |
| Popis: | European Union regulations that establish the maximum cadmium (Cd) levels for crab take into account only concentrations found in crab muscle (white meat), mainly from appendages; therefore, other organs and tissues (brown meat) are excluded. The objective of the present study was to evaluate Cd levels in both white and brown crab meat, in order to achieve a more complete assessment of health risk related to human consumption of warty crab. Microwave digestion and atomic absorption spectrometry were used to determine Cd concentrations in warty crab (Eriphia verrucosa) samples collected from the southern Tyrrhenian Sea in Italy. Cd concentrations in all samples of white crab meat were found to be very low (below the limit of quantification), although brown crab meat showed significantly higher Cd concentrations (up to 5.629 mg/kg wet weight; mean value, 1.465 mg/ kg). Thus, the consumption of brown meat, common among certain populations of the Mediterranean region, where whole crustaceans are traditionally eaten, substantially increased Cd intake, resulting in alarmingly high estimated weekly intake values. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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