Survey of lead, cadmium, mercury and arsenic in seafood purchased in Campania, Italy

Food Additives and Contaminants: Part B Surveillance

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 30-38

  Cirillo, Teresa ^a   Fasano, Evelina ^a   Viscardi, Viviana ^a   Arnese, Antonio ^b   Amodio Cocchieri, Renata ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

AAS; Arsenic; Cadmium; Exposure; Fish and fish products; Heavy metals; Lead; Mercury; Metals analysis

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOPODA;

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; LEAD; MERCURY;

ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; AQUACULTURE; BIVALVE; CEPHALOPOD; DIET; EUROPEAN UNION; FISH; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD FREEZING; HUMAN; ITALY; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; SEA FOOD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; AQUACULTURE; ARSENIC; BIVALVIA; CADMIUM; CEPHALOPODA; DIET; EUROPEAN UNION; FISHES; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FROZEN FOODS; HUMANS; ITALY; LEAD; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; MERCURY; SEAFOOD; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77951040030     PISSN: 19393210     EISSN: 19393229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19440041003636646     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Codex Alimentarius Commission Contaminants. 1984. Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Program. Codex Alimentarius XVII. Rome: FAO/WHO.
2. EC. Health and Consumer Directorate-General. Directorate E-Safety of the Food Chain E3 - Chemicals, contaminants, pesticides. 2008. Information note: Methyl mercury in fish and fishery products. 21 April 2008 D/530286. Brussels: European Commission.
3. EFSA. 2004. Opinion of the scientific panel on contaminants in the food chain on a request from the Commission related to mercury and methylmercury in food. Request No. EFSA-Q-2003-030. Adopted on February 24 2004. EFSA J 34: 1-14.
4. EFSA. 2005. Opinion of the scientific panel on contaminants in the food chain on a request from the European Parliament related to the safety assessment of wild and farmed fish. Question No. EFSA-Q-2004-22. Adopted on June 22, 2005. EFSA J 236: 1-118.
5. EU. 2008. Commission Regulation (EC) no. 629/2008 that modifies Regulation 1881/2006, as regards setting maximum levels for certain contaminants in foodstuffs. Off J Eur Commun. L173:6-9.
6. FAO/WHO. 1993. Evaluation of Certain Food Additives and Contaminants, Technical Report Series No. 837. Geneva: World Health Organization.
7. INRAN. 2003. Linee guida per una sana alimentazione Italiana [internet]. Rome: INRAN [cited 2009 Sept 23]. Available from: http://www.inran.it accessed on 1.4.2009.
8. ISMEA. 2007. Rete di rilevazione dei mercati ittici [internet]. Rome: ISMEA [cited 2009 Sept 23]. http://archivio.ismea.it/ReportIsmea/Filiera_pesca_2007.pdf accessed on 15.4.2009.
9. Jarup L. 2003. Hazards of heavy metal contamination. Br Med Bull. 68:167-182.
10. Juresa D, Blanusa M. 2003. Mercury, arsenic, lead and cadmium in fish and shellfish from the Adriatic Sea. Food Addit Contam. 20:241-246.
11. Marti-Cid R, Bocio A, Llobet JM, Domingo JL. 2007. Intake of chemical contaminants through fish and seafood consumption by children of Catalonia, Spain: Health risks. Food Chem Toxicol. 45:1968-1974.
12. Petroczy A, Naughton DP. 2009. Mercury, cadmium and lead contamination in seafood: a comparative study to evaluate the usefulness of Target Hazard Quotients. Food Chem Toxicol. 47:298-302.
13. Sioen I, Verbeke W, De Henauw S, Parmentier K, Raemaekers M, Willems J, Van Camp J. 2007. Determining the origin of seafood products on the Belgian market: challenges to traceability and database management. Open Food Sci J. 1:33-42.
14. Turkmen A, Turkmen M, Tepe Y, Akyurt I. 2005. Heavy metals in three commercially valuable fish species from Iskenderun Bay, Northern East Mediterranean Sea, Turkey. Food Chem. 91:167-172.
15. USEPA. 2000. Risk-based concentration table. Washington, DC: USEPA.
16. WHO. 1992. Cadmium. Environmental Health Criteria. Vol. 134. Geneva: WHO.
17. WHO. 2001. Arsenic and Arsenic compounds. Environmental Health Criteria. Vol. 224. Geneva: WHO.
18. Wong CK, Wong PPK, Chu LM. 2001. Heavy metal concentration in marine fishes collected from fish culture sites in Hong Kong. Arch Environ Contam Toxicol. 40:60-69.