Hen's egg is an inexpensive but very nutritious component within the human diet. It is
one of the few foods that are used widely worldwide and are healthy and safe for
consumers but if contaminated by toxic heavy metals due to industrial waste,
geochemical structures and agricultural activities is a serious problem for environmental
and human health. The aim of our study is focused on determining the levels of the
concentrations of some elements (essential and toxic elements) in three kinds of the
hen eggs ( Home, street and market hen eggs ) were collected from four regions at Aden
City including Al-Buraiqeh, Al-Hiswah, Khormaksar and Shaikh Othman at Yemen. The
concentrations of Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Se, were measured using the Inductively
Coupled Plasma-Optical Emission Spectrometer (ICP-OES) technique. The mean metal
concentrations (ppm) in hen’s eggs were in the range 0.029-8.903 for Cr, 0.217-0.976 for
Mn, 3.749-20.52 for Fe, 0.010-4.795 for Co, 0.320-3.130 for Ni, 0.251-2.528 for Cu,
10.26-48.07 for Zn, 12.15-55.00 for Se. The mean concentrations of the studied elements
such as zinc and selenium in some hen egg samples were exceeded the permissible limits
according to available international specifications and standards.
Publication Date
3/27/2021
Publisher
Taiz University- the International Conference of Technology, Science and Administration (ICTSA-2021)
د. عادل أحمد محمد سعيد | Dr. Adel Ahmed Mohammed Seaad | 11885