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

Table 4

Intake of PUFA, meHg, and health risk assessment data from consumption of fish/seafood by adolescents 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 (%)	MSCW (kg/week)	HQ
Pelagic fish
1	Selaroides leptolepis	Yellow-stripe scad	0.0480	53.64	710.35	0.4009	25.1	1.50	0.5491
2	Decapterus russelli	Slender scad	0.0459	22.67	343.75	0.1618	10.1	1.57	0.2216
3	Megalaspis cordyla	Torpedo scad	0.0748	37.52	443.73	0.4363	27.3	0.96	0.5977
4	Parastromateus niger	Black pomfret	0.0529	39.07	361.16	0.3214	20.1	1.36	0.4403
5	Rastrelliger kanagurta	Indian mackerel	0.0450	24.33	134.54	0.1704	10.7	1.60	0.2335
6	Scomberomorus guttatus	Indo-Pacific king mackerel	0.0587	35.53	346.76	0.3246	20.3	1.23	0.4446
7	Thunnus tonggol	Long-tail tuna	0.0966	31.30	315.03	0.4701	29.4	0.75	0.6440
8	Euthymus affinis	Kawakawa	0.0667	31.30	348.90	0.3245	20.3	1.08	0.4446
		Median	0.0600	33.42	347.83	0.3245	20.3	1.29	0.4446
Demersal fish
9	Lutjanus argentimaculatus	Mangrove red snapper	0.1927	101.69	237.95	3.0474	190.5	0.37	4.1746
10	Lutjanus russellii	John’s snapper	0.1628	39.46	10.22	0.9992	62.4	0.44	1.3687
11	Lates calcarifer	Giant-sea perch	0.1094	25.33	808.28	0.4309	26.9	0.66	0.5903
12	Gymnura poecilura	Long-tail butterfly ray	0.0956	54.37	6.36	0.8088	50.5	0.75	1.1079
13	Nemipterus japonicus	Japanese threadfin bream	0.0997	43.83	516.58	0.6796	42.5	0.72	0.9310
		Median	0.1176	43.83	273.95	0.8088	50.55	0.66	1.1079
Freshwater fish
14	Clarias batrachus	Walking catfish	0.0711	40.56	114.48	0.4488	28.0	1.01	0.6148
Cephalopods
15	Sepia officinalis	Common cuttlefish	0.0422	39.24	455.32	0.2575	16.1	1.71	0.3527
Crustaceans
16	Metapenaeus affinis	Rainbow shrimp	0.0273	21.00	196.43	0.0892	5.6	2.64	0.1222

Adolescents age 10–17 years old; BW for adolescents = 45 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.