دراسة تركيز بعض المعادن الثقيلة في حليب النوق من بعض مناطق البيع في مدينة جدة

الملخص EN

This investigation was conducted to study the effect of camel milk purchasing locations and time of collecting the milk samples on the chemical quality of camel milk.

The main results showed that lead concentrations in the camel milk ranged from 0.828 mg/ l in the Asfan location in August to 0.147 mg/ l in the Halaga Ghanam location during February.

Cadmium concentrations ranged from 0.039 mg/ l in the Halaga Ghanam location in February to 0.0117 mg/ l in the Stream Canal location during December.

Lead and cadmium concentrations were higher than the Saudi and international standards.

Chromium ranged from 0.458 mg/ l to 0.122 mg/ l in the Stream Canal location in August and December, respectively.

Also.

the Stream Canal location milk had the highest copper concentration in May (0.239 mg/ l) and also had the lowest value (0.033 mg/ l) in April.

Milk from Asfan location in June had the highest iron concentration (0.337 mg/ l) and milk of Stream Canal location in March had the lowest value (0.067 mg/ l).

Zink levels ranged from 0.5203 mg/ l in the milk of Stream Canal location in May to 0.0031 mg/ l in the milk of Halaga Ghanam location during February.

Chromium, copper, iron and zinc concentrations in camel milk were within the standards.