Mohammad Hassaan*(1) Ahmad Elfaki(2) MMubarak Abdallah(2) AlSadek Mohammed(3) and Mohammad Yousif(4)
(1). Institute of Plasma Physics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.
(2). Department of Physics, Sudan University of Sciences and Technology, Khartoum, Sudan.
(3). Department of Sciences, College of Education, University of Shendi, Shendi, Sudan.
(4). Department of Physics, College of Education, University of Gezira, Wad madani, Sudan.
(*Corresponding author: Dr. Mohammad Hassaan. E-Mail:mohm3012@gmail.com).
Received: 13/05/2020 Accepted: 02/07/2020
Abstract
The contamination of poultry products with some heavy elements (metals) such as (lead, manganese and chromium) is considered to be of great risk to human health. Therefore, this study was conducted on 23 random samples of poultry products (meat, bones, necks and liver) in which used the X-ray Fluorescence technique to measure the ratio of heavy elements which was characterized by a high ability to measure the concentration of elements, and the results showed that all samples were contaminated with heavy elements, and the percentage of lead concentration in meat and bones was found as (0.007% and 0.005%), respectively; in addition, the lead percentage in some samples exceeded quality control. The results also showed that the average percentage of concentration of manganese in bone, meat and liver were (0.043%, 0.008% and 0.007%), respectively, the concentration of manganese in all samples was within the limits of quality control, the average concentrations of chromium in the bone, meat, liver and necks was (0.033%, 0.035%, 0.050% and 0.035%), respectively, the concentration of chromium in the liver and meat and also in some bone and necks samples exceeded quality control critical ranges.
Key words: Heavy, Poultry products, X-ray Fluorescence.