Research Article

Health Risk Assessment and Determination of Some Heavy Metals in Commonly Consumed Traditional Herbal Preparations in Northeast Ethiopia

Table 3

Mean concentration of heavy metals in traditional herbal medicinal preparations (mean ± SD, n = 3, mg/kg dry weight).

Sample codePbCdCrCu

KD-013.30 ± 0.80ND10.70 ± 0.2712.3 ± 0.33
KD-023.75 ± 0.13ND8.45 ± 0.1310.5 ± 1.14
KD-034.00 ± 0.55ND10.60 ± 0.3011.05 ± 0.32
KD-044.00 ± 0.36ND10.15 ± 0.211.85 ± 0.35
KD-053.00 ± 0.26ND5.35 ± 0.650.81 ± 0.08
KD-063.92 ± 0.8ND5.60 ± 0.760.86 ± 0.11

ND = Not Detected.