Health Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals from Smoked Corbicula fluminea Collected on Roadside Vendors at Kelantan, Malaysia

Table 2

The comparison of the estimated daily intake and estimated weekly intake with the recommended values for C. fluminea consumption.

	C. fluminea (mg/kg ww)	EDI (μg/kg/day)	ADI^a (μg/kg/day)	EWI^b (μg/kg/week)	PTWI (μg/kg/week)	EWI : PTWI ratio (%)
Cd	0.23	0.28	1	0.84	7^c	12.00
Cu	5.03	6.02	350	18.06	3500^c	0.52
Mn	10.25	12.27	140	36.81	980^d	3.76
Pb	0.62	0.74	3.57	2.22	25^c	8.88
Zn	17.47	20.91	1000	62.73	7000^c	0.90

^aAccepted daily intake which was calculated from PTWI; ^bestimated weekly intake with a frequency of three times consumption per week; ^cPTWI set by FAO/WHO [33]; ^dreference dose of Mn established by USEPA [34].