ArticleToxics2022
Lead and Cadmium Bioaccumulation in Fresh Cow's Milk in an Intermediate Area of the Central Andes of Peru and Risk to Human Health.
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- Concentration of heavy metals in pasteurized and sterilized milk and health risk assessment across the globe: A systematic review.PloS one · 2024Pooled it
- Toxic Elemental Concentrations in Packed Milk Brands, Consumed by Pakistani Children and Young Adults: a Comprehensive Analysis with Implications for Public Health.Biological trace element research · 2026Article
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- The Mechanisms of Lead Toxicity in Living Organisms.Journal of xenobiotics · 2025Review
- Lead, Cadmium, and Arsenic in Edible Tissues of Guinea Pigs Raised in the Central Andes of Peru: Potential Human Health Risk?Veterinary sciences · 2025Article
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- The interplay between antimicrobial resistance, heavy metal pollution, and the role of microplastics.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Review
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- Lead, Cadmium, and Arsenic in Raw Milk Produced in the Vicinity of a Mini Mineral Concentrator in the Central Andes and Health Risk.Biological trace element research · 2024Article
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- Heavy Metal Bioaccumulation in Peruvian Food and Medicinal Products.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Mechanisms of Gills Response to Cadmium Exposure in Greenfin Horse-Faced Filefish (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
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- Lead, Cadmium, and Arsenic in Raw Cow's Milk in a Central Andean Area and Risks for the Peruvian Populations.Toxics · 2023Article
- Studying the concentration of xenobiotics in milk and developing the biosensor method for their rapid determination.Heliyon · 2023Article
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Abstract
The dairy basin of the Mantaro River located in the centre of Peru faces serious anthropogenic disturbances as it receives emissions and discharges from the metallurgical mining activity located in the headwaters of the basin and milk contaminated with lead (Pb) and cadmium (Cd) endangers the environmental and human health, especially children. To measure the concentrations of Pb and Cd in milk and the dangers of their consumption in the Peruvian population, 40 milk samples were collected and quantified by atomic absorption spectrometry. The mean concentration of Pb in milk was 15 ± 2.6 µg/kg, which represented 75% of the Maximum Limit (ML), and that of Cd was 505 ± 123 µg/kg, which exceeded the ML by more than 194 times. The estimated weekly intake of Pb for people aged 2−85 years was below the Provisional Tolerable Weekly Intake (PTWI) references, determining risk coefficients (CRD) < 1. Weekly Cd intake was much higher than the PTWIs and CRDs were between 14 and 34, indicating that consumers would experience carcinogenic health effects, with children being at higher risk than adults, therefore, milk from the area is not safe for consumption. Cd would be transferred mainly through the soil (water)-grass-milk pathway, due to its presence in irrigation water and in fertilizers that contain Cd. The main pathway for Pb entry would be air-soil (water)-milk grass, from the fine particles emitted into the air by the mining-metallurgical activity, developed approximately 90 km from the study area.
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