Heavy Metals Concentration in Sardina pilchardus (Walbaum, 1792) from the Moroccan Mediterranean Coast and Potential Human Health Risk Assessment

Table 5

Comparison of the obtained results with the literature data of cadmium (Cd), mercury (Hg), lead (Pb), and arsenic (As) in the muscle of Sardina pilchardus (Walbaum, 1792).

Location	Metals (μg·g^−1 wet weight)				Reference
	Cd	Hg	Pb	As
Beni-Ensar, Morocco	0.172	0.015	0.008	6.95	Current study
Ras el Ma, Morocco	0.004	0.004	0.005	7.47	Current study
El-Houceima, Morocco	0.104	0.093	0.018	7.73	Current study
Algiers, Algeria	0.13	0.1	0.23	—	[30]
Dellys, Algeria	0.015	0.13	0.03	—	[30]
Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt	—	0.72	0.33	—	[38]
Porticello, Italy	<0.001	0.12	<0.001	11.39	[27]
S. Agata, Italy	0.03	0.10	0.09	10.36	[27]
Tuscany, Italy	0.03	0.02–0.71	0.05	10.6–39.2	[31]
Mersin, Turkey	<0.0004	—	0.91	—	[32]
Boumerdès, Algeria	0.00	—	0.99	—	[39]
Agadir, Morocco	0.006	0.029	0.023	—	[29]
Essaouira, Morocco	0.005	0.033	0.020	—	[29]
Laayoune, Morocco	0.008	ND	0.021	—	[29]
Mediterranean Sea, Spain	0.00	0.03	0.00	0.56	[33]
Mediterranean Sea, Spain	0.002–0.01	0.07–0.09	0.01–0.08	3.53–3.94	[34]

ND: not detected.