Evaluating Benefits and Risks of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Methyl Mercury from Fish and Seafood Consumption in Peninsular Malaysia

Table 3

Intake of PUFA, meHg, and health risk assessment data from consumption of fish/seafood by adult populations in Peninsular Malaysia.

No.	Groups/family/species	Common name	meHg (mg/kg WW)	Fish intake (g/day)	PUFA intake (g/day)	EWI (μgkg^−1)	EWI/PTWI (%)	MSWC (kg/week)	HQ
Pelagic fish
1	Selaroides leptolepis	Yellowstripe scad	0.0480	66.39	879.20	0.3721	23.3	2.00	0.5098
2	Decapterus russelli	Slender scad	0.0459	27.00	409.40	0.1445	9.0	2.09	0.1980
3	Megalaspis cordyla	Torpedo scad	0.0748	37.52	443.73	0.3273	20.5	1.28	0.4483
4	Parastromateus niger	Black pomfret	0.0529	11.11	102.70	0.0686	4.3	1.82	0.0939
5	Rastrelliger kanagurta	Indian mackerel	0.0450	36.67	202.79	0.1926	12.0	2.13	0.2639
6	Scomberomorus guttatus	Indo-Pacific king mackerel	0.0587	20.00	195.19	0.1370	8.6	1.63	0.1877
7	Thunnus tonggol	Long-tail tuna	0.0966	22.83	229.78	0.2572	16.1	0.99	0.3523
8	Euthymus affinis	Kawakawa	0.0667	22.83	254.49	0.1775	11.1	1.44	0.2432
		Median	0.0600	24.91	242.14	0.1851	11.6	0.88	0.2536
Demersal fish
9	Lutjanus argentimaculatus	Mangrove red snapper	0.1927	72.67	170.05	1.6333	102.1	0.50	2.2374
10	Lutjanus russellii	John’s snapper	0.1628	33.33	8.63	0.6330	39.6	0.59	0.8671
11	Lates calcarifer	Giant-sea perch	0.1094	26.67	851.04	0.3403	21.3	0.88	0.4662
12	Gymnura poecilura	Long-tail butterfly ray	0.0956	41.28	4.83	0.4606	28.8	1.00	0.6309
13	Nemipterus japonicus	Japanese threadfin bream	0.0997	53.97	636.09	0.6276	39.2	0.96	0.8598
		Median	0.1176	41.28	170.05	0.6276	39.2	0.88	0.8598
Freshwater fish
14	Clarias batrachus	Walking catfish	0.0711	35.00	98.79	0.2905	18.2	1.35	0.3979
Cephalopods
15	Sepia officinalis	Common cuttlefish	0.0422	44.17	512.53	0.2174	13.6	2.28	0.2978
Crustaceans
16	Metapenaeus affinis	Rainbow shrimp	0.0273	19.63	183.62	0.0625	3.9	3.52	0.0856

Adult age ≥18 years old; body weight (BW) for adult = 60 kg; WW: wet weight; EWI: estimated weekly intake (μg/kg BW/week); provisional tolerable weekly intake (PTWI) for MeHg = 1.6 μg/kg BW/week [32]; MSWC: maximum safe weekly consumption (kg); HQ: hazard quotient.