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Pet food safety at risk? Investigating toxic metal contamination in Lebanon and the UAE.

Fatima Haydous, Hussein F Hassan, Aya Shehab, Nisreen Alwan, Mireille Serhan, Hani Dimassi, Elias Akoury

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Article in RSC advances, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Fatima HaydousDepartment of Physical Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, Lebanese American University Beirut 1102-2801 Lebanon elias.akoury@lau.edu.lb +961 1 786456.
Hussein F HassanDepartment of Nutrition and Food Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, Lebanese American University Beirut 1102-2801 Lebanon.
Aya ShehabDepartment of Physical Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, Lebanese American University Beirut 1102-2801 Lebanon elias.akoury@lau.edu.lb +961 1 786456.
Nisreen AlwanEnvironmental and Public Health Department, College of Health Sciences, Abu Dhabi University P.O. Box 59911 Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates.
Mireille SerhanDepartment of Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Balamand Koura Lebanon.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9695-5770
Hani DimassiSchool of Pharmacy, Lebanese American University Byblos Lebanon.
Elias AkouryDepartment of Physical Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, Lebanese American University Beirut 1102-2801 Lebanon elias.akoury@lau.edu.lb +961 1 786456.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5202-8935

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Our study investigates the presence of toxic metals in pet food stock keeping units (SKUs) marketed in Lebanon (

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PMID40606195
PMCPMC12219634

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