Journal
FOOD CHEMISTRY
Volume 113, Issue 4, Pages 1351-1355Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2008.08.069
Keywords
Arsenic; Chicken; Muscle; Heart; Liver; Graphite furnace; Hydr de generation
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The purpose of this study was to estimate total arsenic concentration in different tissues (leg, breast, liver and heart) of broiler chicken by hydride generation atomic absorption spectrometry (HGAAS) and graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry (GFAAS), prior to microwave assisted acid digestion. The accuracy of the techniques was evaluated by using certified reference material DORM-2. The percentage recoveries of total as were observed as 100.6% and 99.4% for HGAAS and GFAAS, respectively. The precision of the techniques, expressed as relative standard deviation, was observed as 1.71% and 4.18% for HGAAS and GFAAS measurements, respectively. The limits of detection for HGAAS and GFAAS were 0.025 mu g/g and 0.052 mu g/g, respectively. The concentrations of total arsenic in different tissues of broiler chicken were found in the range of 2.19-5.28, 2.15-5.22. 2.97-7.17 and 2.68-6.36 mu g/g for leg. breast, liver and heart tissues, respectively. At a mean level of chicken consumption (60 g/person/day), people may ingest in the range of 72.0-85.1 mu g arsenic/person/day from chicken alone. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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