Assessment of dietary cadmium exposure in kindergarten children from Zadar County, Croatia

摘要: Children are prone to the adverse effects of toxic metals, including cadmium, due specific physiological needs during growth and development. We evaluated level cadmium in daily meals offered children (N =1000, age 4 7) who attended public nurseries coastal area, where they received 80 % their dietary needs. The duplicate portion technique for sampling total food beverage 15 consecutive workdays over three seasons (during 2008) was used. Cadmium analysed representative samples by electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry. estimated levels ingested (expressed as average concentrations) winter, spring autumn were: 2.40±1.02, 1.53±1.36, 0.57±0.38 μg/kg. Based upon a comparison with exposure an child consumer which is between 2.56 3.46 μg/kg bw week (according EFSA, 2011), we concluded that can be considered safe.