Environmental Impacts of Shewashok Oil Field on Sheep and Cow Meat Using Vital Trace Elements as Contamination Bioindicators

Abstract

Air, water and food are the basic needs of most of the living organism to survive. The quality of consumed water, air and food may transfer to the consumers. Ambient environment is built base on interaction of living and non-living organism, chemical and physical compounds, thus oil field emissions, effluents and its general waste can involve. Because of gas flaring in oilfield toxic gases and particles are realised into the atmosphere. Quite possibly the particles contain heavy metals because they are driven from hydrocarbon, and this air is breathing and respiring by the surround living organisms. The experimental work has been performed at the laboratories of the department of Medical Microbiology / Koya University. Samples of specific infected meat, of domestic animals (Cow and Sheep) were collected for the purpose of detecting the concentration of heavy metals in the infected animal. The samples then were dried and digested with concentrated HNO3 and concentrated H2O2. The concentration of heavy metals of the sample digested domestic animal were determined using inductively coupled plasma–optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES). The study shows that the Fe, Co, Cr, Cu, K and Mg have significant concentration in sheep meat, but in cow’s meat Fe, Zn, Co, Cu, P and Mg were significant. Whereas Al, Ca, Hg, Mn, Na and Zn in sheep and Ag, Ca, Hg, Mn, Na, As, Cr and K in cow were not significant. And comparing the trace elements value with World Health Organization standards only Al, Fe and Hg were found significant the rest are complying with the standards.

Assessment of Heavy Metals as an emerging environmental pollutant in liver organs of Sheep and Goats from Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq

“…A particular research regarding elevating heavy metals in crude oil workers blood confirms that Pb and Zn is quite high in their blood that possibly resulted in polluted and unprotected environment (Saleh et al, 2021). Another similar study as the current study has revealed that Hg, Al, and Fe are higher WHO standard in sheep and cow meats (Hamadamin et al, 2019).…”

Impact of Oil Installations on The Rural Development and Environment

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