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- Title
Heavy Metal and Metalloid Contamination in Food and Emerging Technologies for Its Detection.
- Authors
Mukherjee, Anirban Goutam; Renu, Kaviyarasi; Gopalakrishnan, Abilash Valsala; Veeraraghavan, Vishnu Priya; Vinayagam, Sathishkumar; Paz-Montelongo, Soraya; Dey, Abhijit; Vellingiri, Balachandar; George, Alex; Madhyastha, Harishkumar; Ganesan, Raja
- Abstract
Heavy metal and metalloid poisoning in the environment and food has piqued the public's interest since it poses significant hazards to the ecological system and human health. In food, several metals, including cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), mercury (Hg), tin (Sn), manganese (Mn), and aluminium (Al), and metalloids, including arsenic (As), antimony (Sb), and selenium (Se), pose a severe threat to human health. It is of utmost importance to detect even minute quantities of these toxic elements and this must be efficiently determined to understand their risk. Several traditional and advanced technologies, including atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS), spectrofluorimetry, inductively coupled plasma spectrometry, e-tongues, electrochemical aptasensors, Raman spectroscopy, and fluorescence sensors, among other techniques, have proven highly beneficial in quantifying even the minute concentrations of heavy metals and metalloids in food and dietary supplements. Hence, this review aims to understand the toxicity of these metals and metalloids in food and to shed light on the emerging technologies for their detection.
- Subjects
HEAVY metals; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; SEMIMETALS; INDUCTIVELY coupled plasma spectrometry; FOOD contamination; SELENIUM; ARSENIC
- Publication
Sustainability (2071-1050), 2023, Vol 15, Issue 2, p1195
- ISSN
2071-1050
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/su15021195