Cadmium, Lead, and Mercury Exposure Assessment Among Croatian Consumers of Free-Living Game

摘要: Free-living game consumption has been recognised as an important source of dietary cadmium and lead raising the question if exposure to these two elements is such that it might cause adverse health effects for consumers. We estimated cadmium, mercury from free-living (pheasant, hare, fallow deer, roe red wild boar, brown bear) according various scenarios (rare, regular, often) available literature data on metals in tissues hunted Croatia 1990 2012. Exposure was represented percentage (provisionally) tolerable weekly intake [(P)TWI] values set by European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). Because high liver samples, especially kidney samples exceeding legislative maximum level (2-99 %) (1-82 %), people should keep certain species' offal low possible. Children, pregnant lactating women avoid eating offal. This study indicates toxic rare (assumed general population) meat (0.002-0.5 % PTWI) (0.005-6 itself does not pose risk consumers, regular (0.02-6 often (0.1-24 meat. could be additional consumed a monthly basis (3-74 TWI), (11-297 even give rise toxicological concern.