文档介绍：Lead Contributed by the Environment and Raw Materials to Popular Street Foods in Metro Manila,
Philippines
Judilynn N. Solidum, RPh, MS, PhD
College of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of the Philippines, Manila
ABSTRACT
Different hazardous chemicals have been introduced in our environment. Heavy metals, like lead is
among those. As the earth approximates that of a closed system, such contaminant will freely distribute
itself from one sphere to another at an infinite number of years. Street foods and the raw materials used to
prepare it may then be laden with lead. The health and safety of the public is thus at stake particularly if the
concentration of lead in food would go beyond the ppm EPA standard limit..
According to survey, banana cue, kamote cue, turon, different peanut varieties and kwek were the
five most popular street foods from Manila City Hall to Baclaran in Metro Manila, Philippines. Using
FAAS, the concentrations of lead in these street foods were obtained and ranged from to
ppm. All went above EPA standard limit for lead in food. Lead bined main and additive raw
materials to prepare the different popular street foods, ranged from 0,3266 to ppm. Possible mean
lead concentrations in blood upon ingestion of the popular street foods ranged from to ug/dL
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