ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Sustain. Food Syst.
Sec. Aquatic Foods
Volume 9 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2025.1591035
Exposure Assessment of As, Cd, Hg, and Pb in fish and canned-fish collected from local markets at Ramallah City using High Resolution Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry
Provisionally accepted
- 1Birzeit University, Birzeit, Palestine
- 2University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
- 3An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine
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Fish consumption can be a primary pathway of human exposure to toxic metals such as As, Cd, Hg, and Pb. Even at low concentrations, long -term exposure to these metals might accumulate them in human body leading to serious toxicity. Therefore, monitoring their concentrations in fish on a regular basis is crucial to ensure consumers safety. We aimed to measure the concentrations of As, Cd, Hg, and Pb in different fish and canned fish samples and to compare the results with exposure permissible limits in order to assess potential human health hazards.Thirteen different fish species and eight canned fish samples were collected from local markets at Ramallah city, Palestine. Following microwave-assisted digestion, High Resolution -Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometer (HR-ICP-MS) was used to measure the concentrations of these metals in digested samples. The ranges of average metals concentrations (expressed in µg/g dry weight (dw)) in the 13 tested fish species were as follows: As (0.03-54.27), Cd (
Keywords: toxic, Metals, Microwave assisted digestion, Environmental Exposure, Risk Assessment
Received: 11 Mar 2025; Accepted: 22 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Qadah, Gazzawi, Mubiana, Bervoets, Al Zabadi and Blust. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Diab Qadah, Birzeit University, Birzeit, Palestine
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