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http://dx.doi.org/10.5338/KJEA.2015.34.4.43

Monitoring of Cd, Hg, Pb, and As and Risk Assessment for Commercial Medicinal Plants  

Kim, Hyuck-Soo (Chemical Safety Division, Department of Agro-Food Safety & crop Protection, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences)
Kim, Kwon-Rae (Department of Agronomy and Medicinal Plant Resources, College of Bioscience, Gyeongnam National University of Science and Technology)
Hong, Chang-Oh (Department of Life Science and Environmental Biochemistry, College of Natural Resource and Life Sciences, Pusan National University)
Go, Woo-Ri (Chemical Safety Division, Department of Agro-Food Safety & crop Protection, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences)
Jeong, Seon-Hee (Chemical Safety Division, Department of Agro-Food Safety & crop Protection, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences)
Yoo, Ji-Hyock (Chemical Safety Division, Department of Agro-Food Safety & crop Protection, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences)
Cho, Nam-Jun (Chemical Safety Division, Department of Agro-Food Safety & crop Protection, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences)
Hong, Jin-Hwan (Chemical Safety Division, Department of Agro-Food Safety & crop Protection, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences)
Kim, Won-Il (Chemical Safety Division, Department of Agro-Food Safety & crop Protection, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences)
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Korean Journal of Environmental Agriculture / v.34, no.4, 2015 , pp. 282-287 More about this Journal
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The current study was carried out to investigate Cd, Hg, Pb and As contaminations in 222 commercial medicinal plants and to estimate the potential health risk through dietary intake of commercial medicinal plants in Korea.METHODS AND RESULTS: The Cd, Hg, Pb, and As in medicinal plants were analyzed by ICP/MS and mercury analyzer.The potential health risk was estimated using risk assessment tools. Total amount of Cd in medicinal plants with 29% samples exceeded the standard limit legislated in 'Pharmaceutical Affairs Act' while all plant samples were lower than the standard limit value for As, Hg, and Pb. However, when applying the standard limit for root vegetable (fresh weight) in the Food Sanitation Act, four samples exceeded the standard limit of Pb. For health risk assessment, the values of cancer risk probability were 0.3~5.9×10-7which were less than the acceptable cancer risk of 10-6~10-4for regulatory purpose. Also, Hazard quotientvalues were lower than 1.0.CONCLUSION: Therefore, these results demonstrated that human exposure to Cd, Hg, Pb, and As through dietary intake of commercial medicinal plants might notcause adverse health effects although some medicinal plants were higher than the standard limit values for Cd and Pb.
Keywords
Arsenic; Health risk; Heavy metal; Medicinal plant; Safety;
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