Mercury concentrations in reared Atlantic bluefin tuna and risk assessment for the consumers: To eat or not to eat?

Evaluation of mercury content in combustible tobacco products by employing cold vapor atomic absorption spectroscopy and considering the moisture content: a comprehensive study

“…Determining exposure by presenting results in wet weight units, seems to more closely simulate real-world conditions than using dry weight or identically conditioned samples. It is worth noting that an analogous approach is also used to analyze food samples [24].…”

“…The change applied in this study concerned the used drying method. A laboratory dryer was employed instead of lyophilizator used by Milatou et al [24] This study fulfils the need for the study on the total Hg content in various combustible tobacco products and combustible tobacco products that are rarely studied for total Hg content and moisture content, such as pipe tobaccos and bidis, to determine consumer exposure.…”

“…This study provides the proposal that total mercury content can be determined based on dry weight and evaluating consumer exposure to chosen combustible tobacco products. A similar approach was proposed by Milatou et al [24] to evaluate total mercury content in tuna fish samples. The change applied in this study concerned the used drying method.…”

Interactions Between Microplastics and Heavy Metals in Aquatic Environments: A Review

“…Tayebi and Sobhanardakani (2019) found that average levels of Cd and Pb in imported tilapia were found to be higher than the World Health Organization (WHO) maximum permissible levels (MPLs). Milatou et al (2020) also found that total mercury levels in Mediterranean Atlantic bluefin tuna exceeded the maximum levels set by the European Commission. The presence of MPs in fish is supposed to increase their uptake of heavy metals, which will inevitably increase the health risk to humans through the food chain.…”

“…The presence of MPs in fish is supposed to increase their uptake of heavy metals, which will inevitably increase the health risk to humans through the food chain. There are many studies that demonstrated the wide presence of MPs and/or heavy metals in fish body (Akhbarizadeh et al, 2018;Milatou et al, 2020;Ta and Babel, 2020;Zitouni et al, 2020;Abidli et al, 2021;Covernton et al, 2021;Jonathan et al, 2021;Martinez-Tavera et al, 2021;Sarkar et al, 2021). For example, Akhbarizadeh et al (2018) investigated MPs and metals' concentration in muscles of both benthic and pelagic fish species from northeast of Persian Gulf and assess the risk of their consumption; Sarkar et al (2021) detected MPs (PET and PE) and high levels of heavy metals (AS, Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb, and Zn) in both pond water and fish meat.…”