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

Table 3

Target hazard quotients (THQs) in canned milk.

Milk	Pb	Cd	As	Zn	Mn	Ni	Cu	Fe
Peak Milk	—	0.004	0.376	0.002	—	—	—	0.229
Three Crown	—	0.022	0.753	0.003	—	—	0.152	0.229
Coast	—	—	0.564	0.002	0.001	1.605	0.101	0.207
Nunu	0.931	0.004	0.235	0.002	0.001	2.565	0.050	0.207
Cowbell	−0.465	—	0.470	0.003	0.001	0.960	0.050	0.349
Olympic	—	—	0.376	0.002	—	1.920	0.101	0.62
THQ	0.466	0.03	2.774	0.014	0.003	7.05	0.454	1.841

THQ < 1 indicates no adverse health effects, while THQ > 1 or a = 1 indicates that adverse health effects are likely to occur; — = no health risk.