Food Safety Analysis of Milk and Beef in Southwestern Uganda

Table 2

Estimated daily intake of pollutants in beef and milk of Bushenyi.

Parameters		Cu	Zn	Pb	Fe
		Mean concentrations × 10^−3 (ppm/day)
	TAL	0.5	1	0.0036	0.8
Adult beef EDI levels		0.001	0.096	0.053	0.037
Children beef EDI levels		0.001	0.134	0.074	0.051
values of adults and children on beef levels		0.0986	0.0564	0.5013	0.0851
Adult milk EDI levels		0.001	0.0437	0.0109	0.0124
Children milk EDI levels		0.0018	0.1294	0.0322	0.0368
values of adults and children on milk levels		0.001	0.001	0.002	0.001

TAL = tolerable allowable levels in humans; EDI = estimated daily intake. values generated from t-test of the same inorganic compound.