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Assessment of the Risk of Exposure to Cadmium and Lead as a Result of the Consumption of Coffee Infusions by Anna Winiarska-Mieczan; Katarzyna Kwiatkowska; Małgorzata Kwiecień; Ewa Zaricka is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.

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The paper aimed to analyse the safety of drinking coffee by adult Poles in terms of Pb and Cd content. The degree to which Cd and Pb passed from coffee grounds into the coffee infusion was also examined. Twenty-three samples of natural coffee were examined. The content of metals was determined using the ICP method. On average, dry coffee contained ca. 0.004 μg Cd and 0.05 μg Pb per 1 g, and 95.5% Cd and 94% Pb passed into the infusion. Drinking coffee supplies these metals in the amount of less than 2% TWI (tolerable weekly intake) for Cd and BMDL (benchmark dose lower confidence limit) for Pb. In the presented studies, the values of CDI (chronic daily intake), THQ (target hazard quotient) and HI (hazard index) indicators were lower than 1, which means that the risk of developing diseases connected with chronic exposure to Cd and Pb consumed with coffee must be evaluated as very low. The content of Cd and Pb in the analysed coffee infusions was very low, so drinking coffee does not pose a risk for consumers in terms of the content of these metals. However, it must be remembered that no threshold limits for toxic metal consumption exist because these metals accumulate in the body fo

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Author

Anna Winiarska-Mieczan; Katarzyna Kwiatkowska; Małgorzata Kwiecień; Ewa Zaricka

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)