Siric et al. 2019 - Heavy metals in cultivated mushrooms from Croatia

Siric and colleagues measured Fe, Zn, Cu, As, Cd, Pb, and Hg in three cultivated mushroom species, with 20 samples per species. The source is routeable because it provides species-level means and SDs for edible cultivated mushrooms. As, Cd, Pb, and Hg are reported in ug/kg, while Fe, Zn, and Cu are reported in mg/kg.

Key numbers

Values are species means +/- SD. Fe, Zn, and Cu are mg/kg; As, Cd, Pb, and Hg are ug/kg.

• Agaricus bisporus: moisture 91.72 +/- 9.33%; Fe 60.04 +/- 9.01; Zn 53.64 +/- 2.69; Cu 7.06 +/- 1.95; As 71.61 +/- 21.89; Cd 95.49 +/- 31.45; Pb 10.72 +/- 4.45; Hg 2.27 +/- 0.44.
• Lentinula edodes: Fe 51.48 +/- 6.51; Zn 50.96 +/- 4.19; Cu 1.25 +/- 0.66; As 49.49 +/- 12.90; Cd 133.67 +/- 31.96; Pb 11.43 +/- 2.88; Hg 1.28 +/- 0.24.
• Pleurotus ostreatus: Fe 52.90 +/- 5.20; Zn 34.50 +/- 3.03; Cu 1.28 +/- 0.68; As 143.20 +/- 26.47; Cd 95.88 +/- 13.65; Pb 21.17 +/- 8.18; Hg 2.20 +/- 0.37.
• Source-reported PTWI contributions were below 1% for Pb and Hg, approximately 3.28-9.55% for As, and approximately 13.64-19.12% for Cd.

Methods (brief)

The authors sampled cultivated mushroom species and analyzed metal concentrations by species. The paper provides mean and SD for each species, plus health-risk calculations based on estimated weekly intake. The source reports total arsenic and total mercury; no inorganic arsenic or methylmercury speciation is provided.

Implications

This source contributes cultivated mushroom occurrence data for Croatia and is particularly useful because it separates Agaricus, Pleurotus, and Lentinula. It should support mushrooms pages and metal pages for cadmium, lead, arsenic-total, and mercury-total. The low Hg values are total Hg and should not be treated as methylmercury.

Wiki pages this source may touch

• mushrooms
• cadmium
• lead
• arsenic-total
• mercury-total
• iron
• zinc
• copper

Verification notes

• DOI, title, authors, journal, and year were taken from the PDF header. Author names are ASCII-normalized in frontmatter for tooling compatibility.
• The DOI is printed in the paper as 10.5513/JCEA01/20.4.2476.
• As and Hg are total-analyte values; do not route as inorganic arsenic or methylmercury.
• The paper reports As/Cd/Pb/Hg in ug/kg, not mg/kg.

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