Prevalence of Arsenic in chicken feed and its contamination pattern in different parts of chicken flesh: a market basket
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Prevalence of Arsenic in chicken feed and its contamination pattern in different parts of chicken flesh: a market basket study Naba Kumar Mondal
Received: 6 March 2020 / Accepted: 17 August 2020 # Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Abstract Organoarsenic compounds are widely used in chicken feed for control of coccidial parasite, quick weight gain, and for imparting attractive color to the chicken flesh. A study was conducted to assess the level of arsenic in both chicken feed and flesh. Chicken feed was collected from 10 farm houses and total arsenic was estimated. The quantitative estimation suggests that the four levels of chicken feed contain different quantities of arsenic load. The results demonstrated that feed at stages III and IV levels contain 0.01 mg/g and 0.018 mg/g of arsenic respectively. However, at stages I and II levels, the feed contains 0.005 mg/g and 0.0052 mg/g of arsenic respectively. Proceeding similarly, chicken flesh was collected from ten vendors in the local markets of Burdwan. The experimental results revealed that deposition of arsenic in different parts of chicken body is not same. The highest accumulation was recorded in the flesh of chest followed by stomach, whereas flesh of the legs and heart showed lower levels of arsenic accumulation. A comprehensive calculation was thereafter done to assess the total amount of arsenic ingestion through consumption of chicken. If a person takes 60.0 g of chicken flesh (leg, breast, muscles, and
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-020-08558-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. N. K. Mondal (*) Environmental Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Environmental Science, The University of Burdwan, Bardhaman, West Bengal, India e-mail: [email protected]
stomach) everyday, then the person may consume 0.186–0.372 μg of arsenic per day. This study therefore clearly suggests that excessive consumption of poultry chicken may prove to be fatal. However, further research is necessary to confirm the present findings. To the best of our knowledge, this is probably the first report on the likelihood of arsenic contamination in the flesh of different body parts of poultry chicken from Eastern India. Keywords Arsenic intake . Broiler chicken . Human consumption . Health risk . Roxarsone-amended feed
Introduction Arsenic is a metalloid and a member of the nitrogen family in the periodic table (Roy et al. 2017). Arsenic exists in different oxidation states (As3−, As0, As3+ and As5+) in both soil and water (Dey et al. 2016). Among its various compounds, arsenites (As3+) and arsenates (As5+) are the most common in our environment (Roy et al. 2013). Organoarsenic compounds like roxarsone and other form of arsenic such as p-arsanilic acid are extensively used as feed additives in swine and poultry production for control of parasites (coccidial), betterment of feeding habit, growth enhancement, and to improve the color of flesh (Mangalgiri et al. 2015). In previou
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