Determination of the Level of Selected Elements in Canned Meat and Fish and Risk Assessment for Consumer Health

Table 6

The health risk assessment related to the consumption of canned meat and canned fish.

	Co	Ag	Sn	Sb	Pb	Hg	Cd	As
THQ^1
Canned meat (mean)	0.00006	0.00050	0.00000	0.00431	0.00361	0.00001	0.00319	0.00043
Canned meat (max)	0.00014	0.00120	0.00000	0.01164	0.00705	0.00002	0.01756	0.00064
Canned fish (mean)	0.00022	0.00017	0.00000	0.01481	0.00297	0.01402	0.03174	0.44875
Canned fish (max)	0.00042	0.00027	0.00000	0.03261	0.01292	0.03394	0.11849	0.77576
TTHQ^1
Canned meat (mean)	0.01209
Canned meat (max)	0.03825
Canned fish (mean)	0.51267
Canned fish (max)	0.97441
EDI^1
Canned meat (mean)	0.00116	0.00248	0.00379	0.00000	0.01299	0.00000	0.00032	0.00013
Canned meat (max)	0.00276	0.00602	0.01029	0.00000	0.02539	0.00000	0.00176	0.00019
Canned fish (mean)	0.00440	0.00083	0.03143	0.00001	0.01069	0.00421	0.00317	0.13462
Canned fish (max)	0.00833	0.00137	0.21403	0.00001	0.04651	0.01018	0.01185	0.23273
THQ^2
Canned meat (mean)	0.00016	0.00135	0.00000	0.01173	0.00982	0.00002	0.00868	0.00117
Canned meat (max)	0.00038	0.00328	0.00000	0.03168	0.01920	0.00004	0.04780	0.00175
Canned fish (mean)	0.00010	0.00007	0.00000	0.00652	0.00131	0.00617	0.01398	0.19761
Canned fish (max)	0.00018	0.00012	0.00000	0.01436	0.00569	0.01495	0.05218	0.34161
TTHQ^2
Canned meat (mean)	0.03292
Canned meat (max)	0.10413
Canned fish (mean)	0.22576
Canned fish (max)	0.42908
EDI^2
Canned meat (mean)	0.01106	0.02371	0.03624	0.01646	0.12409	0.00002	0.00305	0.00123
Canned meat (max)	0.02641	0.05750	0.09829	0.04447	0.24264	0.00004	0.01678	0.00184
Canned fish (mean)	0.00680	0.00129	0.04857	0.00916	0.01651	0.00650	0.00491	0.20806
Canned fish (max)	0.01287	0.00211	0.33077	0.02016	0.07189	0.01574	0.01831	0.35967

THQ: target hazard quotient, TTHQ: total target hazard quotient, EDI: estimated daily intake. ¹Average daily consumption of canned products in Poland: canned meat, 4.5 g·day⁻¹ (which corresponds to a portion of about 0.1 canned meat items weighing 300 g·week⁻¹); canned fish, 11 g·day⁻¹ (which corresponds to a portion of about 0.6 canned fish items weighing 120 g·week⁻¹); exposure duration, 70 years. ²Daily consumption of canned meat, 43 g·day⁻¹ (one canned meat item with a product content of 300 g·week⁻¹); canned fish, 17 g·day⁻¹ (one canned fish item with a product content of 120 g·week⁻¹); exposure duration, 30 years.