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Assessment of the risk of exposure to cadmium and lead as a result of the consumption of coffee infusions
The paper aimed to analyse the safety of drinking coffee by adult Poles in terms of Pb and Cd content. The degree to which Cd and Pb passed from coffee grounds into the coffee infusion was also examined. Twenty-three samples of natural coffee were examined. The content of metals was determined using...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8055627/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32789644 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12011-020-02332-3 |
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author | Winiarska-Mieczan, Anna Kwiatkowska, Katarzyna Kwiecień, Małgorzata Zaricka, Ewa |
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description | The paper aimed to analyse the safety of drinking coffee by adult Poles in terms of Pb and Cd content. The degree to which Cd and Pb passed from coffee grounds into the coffee infusion was also examined. Twenty-three samples of natural coffee were examined. The content of metals was determined using the ICP method. On average, dry coffee contained ca. 0.004 μg Cd and 0.05 μg Pb per 1 g, and 95.5% Cd and 94% Pb passed into the infusion. Drinking coffee supplies these metals in the amount of less than 2% TWI (tolerable weekly intake) for Cd and BMDL (benchmark dose lower confidence limit) for Pb. In the presented studies, the values of CDI (chronic daily intake), THQ (target hazard quotient) and HI (hazard index) indicators were lower than 1, which means that the risk of developing diseases connected with chronic exposure to Cd and Pb consumed with coffee must be evaluated as very low. The content of Cd and Pb in the analysed coffee infusions was very low, so drinking coffee does not pose a risk for consumers in terms of the content of these metals. However, it must be remembered that no threshold limits for toxic metal consumption exist because these metals accumulate in the body for a long time. The studies presented here also showed a low (r = 0.26) but still a positive correlation between the content of Pb in coffee and the degree (%) to which Pb passed into the infusion. This problem should be thoroughly investigated. |
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spelling | pubmed-80556272021-05-05 Assessment of the risk of exposure to cadmium and lead as a result of the consumption of coffee infusions Winiarska-Mieczan, Anna Kwiatkowska, Katarzyna Kwiecień, Małgorzata Zaricka, Ewa Biol Trace Elem Res Article The paper aimed to analyse the safety of drinking coffee by adult Poles in terms of Pb and Cd content. The degree to which Cd and Pb passed from coffee grounds into the coffee infusion was also examined. Twenty-three samples of natural coffee were examined. The content of metals was determined using the ICP method. On average, dry coffee contained ca. 0.004 μg Cd and 0.05 μg Pb per 1 g, and 95.5% Cd and 94% Pb passed into the infusion. Drinking coffee supplies these metals in the amount of less than 2% TWI (tolerable weekly intake) for Cd and BMDL (benchmark dose lower confidence limit) for Pb. In the presented studies, the values of CDI (chronic daily intake), THQ (target hazard quotient) and HI (hazard index) indicators were lower than 1, which means that the risk of developing diseases connected with chronic exposure to Cd and Pb consumed with coffee must be evaluated as very low. The content of Cd and Pb in the analysed coffee infusions was very low, so drinking coffee does not pose a risk for consumers in terms of the content of these metals. However, it must be remembered that no threshold limits for toxic metal consumption exist because these metals accumulate in the body for a long time. The studies presented here also showed a low (r = 0.26) but still a positive correlation between the content of Pb in coffee and the degree (%) to which Pb passed into the infusion. This problem should be thoroughly investigated. Springer US 2020-08-13 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8055627/ /pubmed/32789644 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12011-020-02332-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Winiarska-Mieczan, Anna Kwiatkowska, Katarzyna Kwiecień, Małgorzata Zaricka, Ewa Assessment of the risk of exposure to cadmium and lead as a result of the consumption of coffee infusions |
title | Assessment of the risk of exposure to cadmium and lead as a result of the consumption of coffee infusions |
title_full | Assessment of the risk of exposure to cadmium and lead as a result of the consumption of coffee infusions |
title_fullStr | Assessment of the risk of exposure to cadmium and lead as a result of the consumption of coffee infusions |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessment of the risk of exposure to cadmium and lead as a result of the consumption of coffee infusions |
title_short | Assessment of the risk of exposure to cadmium and lead as a result of the consumption of coffee infusions |
title_sort | assessment of the risk of exposure to cadmium and lead as a result of the consumption of coffee infusions |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8055627/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32789644 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12011-020-02332-3 |
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