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Potentially Toxic Elements (Ptes) in Refined and Cold-Pressed Vegetable Oils Distributed in Ahvaz, Iran: A Probabilistic Health Risk Assessment Publisher Pubmed



Askarpour SA1 ; Molaeeaghaee E1 ; Ghaderighahfarokhi M2 ; Shariatifar N1 ; Mahmudiono T3 ; Sadighara P1 ; Fakhri Y4
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  1. 1. Division of Food Safety and Hygiene, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  2. 2. Department of Food Hygiene, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran
  3. 3. Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia
  4. 4. Food Health Research Center, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran

Source: Biological Trace Element Research Published:2023


Abstract

The concentration of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) in vegetable oils using inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) was measured. Probabilistic non-carcinogenic risk in consumers was estimated using the target hazard quotient (THQ) and total target hazard quotient (TTHQ) by Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) method. The highest content of PTEs was found in blend oil for As (0.39 ± 0.07 mg/L), in cold-pressed rapeseed oil for Cd and Cu (0.07 ± 0 and 0.40 ± 0.06 mg/L) respectively, in cold-pressed sunflower oil for Fe (0.15 ± 0.10 mg/L), in refined sesame oil for Ni and Pb (0.44 ± 0.07 and 0.65 ± 0.07 mg/L, respectively), and in cold-pressed sunflower and rapeseed oils for Zn (0.19 ± 0.04 mg/L). THQ in adults and children due to individual vegetable oils (cold-pressed and refined vegetable oil) was lower than 1 value. TTHQ in adults and children due to consumption of cold-pressed vegetable oils was 0.05 and 0.26, and also refined vegetable oil was 0.51 and 0.33, respectively. TTHQ due to consumption of both types of oils was less than 1; therefore, the population is not at risk of non-carcinogenicity. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
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