Health Risk of Ingested Heavy Metals in Fluidized Canned Milks: Are We Drinking Heavy Metals?

Table 1

Heavy metal concentrations in canned milk.

Milk types	Lead (ppm)	Cadmium (ppm)	Manganese (ppm)	Nickel (ppm)	Copper (ppm)	Arsenic (ppm)	Iron (ppm)	Zinc (ppm)
Peak Milk	ND	0.0357 ± 0.002	ND	ND	ND	1.8065 ± 0.005	2.5677 ± 0.001	0.1732 ± 0.001
Three Crown	ND	0.1786 ± 0.001	ND	ND	0.0970 ± 0.001	3.6129 ± 0.002	2.5677 ± 0.002	0.2165 ± 0.002
Coast	ND	ND	0.0648 ± 0.001	0.5128 ± 0.002	0.0647 ± 0.004	2.7097 ± 0.002	2.3231 ± 0.004	0.1818 ± 0.001
Nunu	0.2979	0.0357 ± 0.001	0.0648 ± 0.003	0.8205 ± 0.001	0.0323 ± 0.002	1.1290 ± 0.001	2.3231 ± 0.002	0.1905 ± 0.014
Cowbell	−0.1489	ND	0.0648 ± 0.002	0.3077 ± 0.003	0.0323 ± 0.003	2.2581 ± 0.012	3.9127 ± 0.003	0.2165 ± 0.001
Olympic	ND	ND	ND	0.6154 ± 0.003	0.0647 ± 0.002	1.8065 ± 0.002	2.9345 ± 0.001	0.1475 ± 0.001
Permissible limit	0.015	0.005	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.01	0.3	5–15

Values are presented as mean ± standard of triplicate (n = 3); ND = not detected.