Hair Mercury Levels Detection in Fishermen from Sicily (Italy) by ICP-MS Method after Microwave-Assisted Digestion

Giangrosso, Giuseppe; Cammilleri, Gaetano; Macaluso, Andrea; Vella, Antonio; D’Orazio, Nicolantonio; Graci, Stefania; Dico, Gianluigi Maria Lo; Galvano, Fabio; Giangrosso, Margherita; Ferrantelli, Vincenzo

doi:10.1155/2016/5408014

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“…Equipment: Agilent 8800 ICP-QQQ (ICP-MS/MS analysis system will be used in Egypt for measuring: Lead, Mercury and Aluminum. It is similar to and coping with international standards exactly the same as Micro Trace Metal Lab in Germany (Amin et al, 2011;Giangrosso et al, 2016). Table (2) shows that levels of aluminum, mercury and lead were much higher among cases than among controls with high statistical significance difference between them (p< 0.05).…”

Section: Methods For Hair Analysis: Sample Preparationsupporting

confidence: 52%

Studying Environmental Risk Factors and Levels of Some Heavy Metals Among a Sample of Autistic Children in Egypt

Hack¹,

El-Damaty²,

Metwally³

et al. 2020

Journal of Environmental Science

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Background: Autism is a developmental disability characterized by severe deficits in social interaction and communication. Although the exact cause of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is still not known, it is believed that both genetic and environmental factors influence the onset and development of this disorder. Aim of the study: To assess the possible environmental risk factors and the levels of aluminum, mercury and lead in the hair of children with ASD. Patients and methods: A case control study was carried out. Thirty ASD children were studied in comparison to 30 age-and sex-matched controls. All participants were subjected to a questionnaire for data collection, clinical evaluation and hair sample for measurement of level of aluminum, mercury and lead which reflects past exposure. Results: The mean age of the studied autistic children was 6.5±2.4year compared to 5.4±1.8 year in the controls with no significant difference (P>0.05), 76.7% of the cases were boys. Living near to traffic was found to be higher among cases than among controls with p <0.05 indicating high statistically significant difference. A short distance (> 500m) between the house and nearby traffic was another risk factor. Autistic children were found to play with wall paint more than the controls with high statistical difference between them. The use of aluminum cooking utensils and spoons was significantly higher among families of cases than controls. The mean level of aluminum was significantly higher in cases compared to the control (20.79±10.2, 7.85±1 respectively with P<0.0001). Mean level of mercury among cases was significantly higher than among controls (1.24±1.12,

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Section: Methods For Hair Analysis: Sample Preparationsupporting

confidence: 52%

Studying Environmental Risk Factors and Levels of Some Heavy Metals Among a Sample of Autistic Children in Egypt

Hack¹,

El-Damaty²,

Metwally³

et al. 2020

Journal of Environmental Science

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“…Figure 4 shows that the variances of mercury concentrations in hair specimens were quite large in both exposed groups and also control group that was also described in Table 2. These led to the highest of mercury concentration being unable to be correlated to particular kind of work since the presence of mercury in hair specimen is strongly attributed to environmental exposure, lifestyle, and dietary habits [29,30]. Dietary habits, especially fish consumption, is considered to be the main source of mercury exposure particularly in the form of methyl mercury [31,32].…”

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Assessment of Heavy Metals on Occupationally Exposed Workers from Hair Analysis

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The use of human hair as a tool in assessing changes and abnormalities in human bodies has been increasing for last decades since it may reflect the health status or environmental condition of habitation or working place of individuals as well as population groups. Compared to other body tissue or fluids, hair provides an ease of elemental analysis especially in reflecting the long-term exposure. This research was conducted to determine the elemental content especially heavy metals, since they are bioaccumulated in human body organs and impact human health, in hair of workshop workers and traffic services officers as exposed groups and its comparison with control group and references data for assessing of occupational exposure. Thirty-five automotive workshop workers and 32 traffic services officers' hair specimens were collected in Bandung, while hair specimens of the control group were collected from 43 healthy individuals. The elemental concentrations in hair specimen were analyzed using neutron activation analysis (NAA) for mercury and chromium, and atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS) for lead and arsenic. The accuracy of the method was evaluated using GBW 07601 human hair certified reference material (CRM) and it was found to give good results in accordance with the certificate values. It was found that chromium, lead, and arsenic hair concentration in exposed groups (0.88, 10.7, and 0.051 mg/kg, respectively) were higher than in control group (0.27, 4.52, and 0.045 mg/kg, respectively), while mercury hair concentration of traffic services officers were higher than control group but mercury hair concentration of automotive workshop workers were lower than in control group (1.41 mg/kg). The t-test statistical results shown that mercury concentrations in one exposed group did not differ significantly from the control, but other exposed groups showed otherwise. The level of mercury in hair is strongly attributed not only to environmental exposure, but also to lifestyle and dietary habits, while t-test statistical results of chromium and lead differ significantly with p value < 0.05. These results indicate that heavy metal hair concentrations were well quantified to show the abnormalities of elemental concentration in human hair for evaluating the occupational exposure.

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“…Fish accumulate Hg through the consumption of water and aquatic organisms and slow elimination of Hg, combined with continuous exposure, causes a significant accumulation of Hg along the food chain [ 5 ]. Dietary fish consumption is the main route of human exposure to Hg, a powerful neurotoxin that can significantly compromise human health [ 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 ]. The health risks related to the consumption of fish contaminated with Hg are subject to the regulation introduced by many countries and government agencies.…”

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Monitoring of Environmental Hg Occurrence in Tunisian Coastal Areas

Jebara

Turco

Faggio

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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Total mercury (Hg) was determined in 450 environmental samples (seawater, sediment plant and fish) from five Mahdia coastal areas (Tunisia). Tolerable Weekly Intake% (TWI) values, according to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), were calculated based on the average metal concentration in fish and the average weekly fish consumption rate. Hg was accumulated mainly in fish and in Posidonia oceanica leaves. Hg in sediment ranged from 1.88 μg/kg dry weight (d.w.) to 7.48 μg/kg d.w., while it was between 0.32 μg/kg and 0.19 μg/kg in seawaters. Our study showed high concentration in Posidonia oceanica in S3 (plant = 16.76 ± 4.48 μg/kg d.w.) as compared to those in S4 sites (plant = 5.33 ± 0.05 μg/kg d.w.). Concentrations for S. aurata and S. salpa in the Rejiche area exceeded the EC 1881/2006 legislation with values of 1.9 mg/kg and 2.5 mg/kg, respectively, and consumers may be exposed to high concentrations of Hg that exceeds the EFSA. The results showed that the fish species should be constantly monitored due to their TWI% of 154.5% for S. aurata and 209.8% S. salpa respectively.

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Hair Mercury Levels Detection in Fishermen from Sicily (Italy) by ICP-MS Method after Microwave-Assisted Digestion

Cited by 23 publications

References 18 publications

Studying Environmental Risk Factors and Levels of Some Heavy Metals Among a Sample of Autistic Children in Egypt

Studying Environmental Risk Factors and Levels of Some Heavy Metals Among a Sample of Autistic Children in Egypt

Assessment of Heavy Metals on Occupationally Exposed Workers from Hair Analysis

Monitoring of Environmental Hg Occurrence in Tunisian Coastal Areas

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