Fagbemi et al. 2023 - Lead and minerals in street-hawked foods from Akure, Nigeria

This paper measured Pb alongside Ca, Cu, Fe, and Zn in seven street-hawked foods from Akure Metropolis. The routeable heavy-metal finding is Pb in prepared foods and ready-to-eat street foods, ranging from 0.05 +/- 0.01 to 0.30 +/- 0.01 mg/100 g. The source also contains microbiology results, but those are context rather than HMTc occurrence evidence.

Key numbers

Table 1 reports mineral composition in mg/100 g:

The abstract summarizes overall ranges as Ca 24.50-32.00 mg/100 g, Cu 0.75-1.12 mg/100 g, Pb 0.05-0.30 mg/100 g, Fe 0.19-0.31 mg/100 g, and Zn 1.40-2.33 mg/100 g.

Methods (brief)

The study purchased selected street foods in Akure, prepared ash/digests for metal analysis, and measured metals by atomic absorption spectrophotometry. Microbial counts and isolation were conducted separately for food-safety context.

Implications

The paper supports Nigeria-market occurrence context for Pb in ready-to-eat street foods and mixed prepared foods. It is not a utensil-contact study despite the auto-fetch filename; route it to food matrices, not cookware.

Wiki pages this source may touch

• mixed-meals-rice-containing
• mixed-meals-prepared-foods
• fresh-fish
• fresh-fruit
• category-5-beverages
• lead

Verification notes

The methods text lists some additional candidate foods, but Table 1 and the abstract map seven sample codes to seven foods. The table is the routeable source of numeric concentration data.

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