Research Article
Health Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals from Smoked Corbicula fluminea Collected on Roadside Vendors at Kelantan, Malaysia
Table 1
Concentration of heavy metals (mg/kg ww) in C. fluminea soft tissue from February to July.
| Month | Cd | Cu | Mn | Pb | Zn | Mean ± SE | Mean ± SE | Mean ± SE | Mean ± SE | Mean ± SE |
| February | 0.24 ± 0.02a | 3.68 ± 0.22a | 7.62 ± 3.09a | 0.45 ± 0.21a | 9.06 ± 2.19a | March | 0.21 ± 0.01a | 3.26 ± 0.18a | 12.18 ± 1.44a | 0.44 ± 0.02ab | 15.03 ± 0.63ab | April | 0.23 ± 0.01a | 8.97 ± 1.22b | 6.91 ± 0.94a | 0.86 ± 0.04b | 29.82 ± 1.89c | May | 0.20 ± 0.01a | 4.94 ± 0.64a | 8.16 ± 1.49a | 0.49 ± 0.05ab | 18.31 ± 2.08b | June | 0.24 ± 0.02a | 4.23 ± 0.43a | 12.52 ± 2.83a | 0.88 ± 0.06b | 16.67 ± 1.45b | July | 0.26 ± 0.01a | 5.12 ± 0.15a | 14.11 ± 1.70a | 0.57 ± 0.35ab | 16.06 ± 1.55ab | Average | 0.23 ± 0.01 | 5.03 ± 0.47 | 10.25 ± 1.92 | 0.62 ± 0.12 | 17.49 ± 1.63 |
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Letters show significant differences among the months at . The data were presented as mean ± standard error. |