Migrating Levels of Toxic Heavy Metals in Locally Made Food Packaging Containers (original) (raw)

Egyptian Journal of Chemistry, 2021

Abstract

Background/Objectives: Earth’s crust contains heavy metals as natural ingredients. Heavy metals create a major health problem for the humans because of their persistence, highly toxic nature and tendency to accumulate in the ecosystem. The main aim of this study was to measure the concentration of heavy metals in the locally made food containers at three different temperatures, using various simulating solvents as per guidelines Bureau of Indian standard (BIS), by using Atomic Absorption spectroscopy (AAS). Methods/Statistical analysis: The estimation of heavy metals such as Cd, Cr, Ni, Cu, Mn, Fe, Pb and Zn of plastic leachates were detected by using Atomic absorption spectrophotometer (AAS). The results were expressed statistically using mean ± standard deviation of triplicate reading of each sample and corresponding control solution. The dunnett comparison were made to assess the level of significance by applying one way analysis of variance (ANOVA) using computer based software ...

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