Safety of Potato Consumption in Slovak Region Contaminated by Heavy Metals due to Previous Mining Activity

Table 3

Contents of heavy metals in potato tubers.

Locality	Cultivar	Cd	Pb	Ni
		(mg/kg FM)
Odorin	Laura
	Marabel
	Red Anna
All cultivars	Min.	0.022	n.d.	0.078
	Max.	0.033	0.230	0.530
	Average	0.028	0.083	0.229
	STDEV	0.004	0.056	0.126
Matejovce	Arlet
	Malvina
	Megan
	Spinela
	Svella
	Timea
All cultivars	Min.	0.000	n.d.	0.069
	Max.	0.022	0.155	0.464
	Average	0.011	0.053	0.206
	STDEV	0.008	0.033	0.096
Spissky Stvrtok	Laura
	Smart
	Victoria
	Vivaldi
All cultivars	Min.	0.033	0.024	0.086
	Max.	0.065	0.163	0.589
	Average	0.045	0.068	0.243
	STDEV	0.009	0.036	0.127
EC No. 1881/2006 (FC SR)		0.1 (0.1)	0.1 (0.1)	— (0.5)

Notes: n.d.: not detected, a, b, c, and d: statistically significant differences between potato cultivars in the same locality, and value < 0.05.