Monitoring of air pollution and atmospheric deposition of heavy metals by analysis of honey
2012
Lazor, P., Slovak Univ. of Agriculture in Nitra (Slovak Republic). Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Sciences, Department of Chemistry | Tomáš, J. | Tóth, T. | Tóth, J. | Čéryová, S.
Honey is an important food for the human nutrition. Changes in the quality of bee honey are also caused by the contamination with micro-polluting agents, toxic to consumers. Heavy metals in honey are of interest not only for quality control, but can be used also as an environmental indicator. In this work honey samples were collected in different places of Slovakia. From the experimental results the average values for concentration heavy metals in honey in site Prievidza 2006 - 2008 were: 0.0599 mg per kg As, 0.0948 mg per kg Cd, 0.0747 mg per kg Cr, 0.0394 mg per kg Hg and 0.1252 mg per kg Pb; in site Šaľa 2006 - 2008: 0.0862 mg per kg As, 0.0942 mg per kg Cd, 0.0736 mg per kg Cr, 0.0341 mg per kg Hg and 0.1626 mg per kg Pb. The results suggested that honey could be used to detect contaminating agents in the environment.
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