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Various cereal, like: corn, wheat, buckwheat, triticale, barley, rye, oats and spelt are traditionally used in the daily diet of the population in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The aim of this study was to determine the content of heavy metals that may be present in cereals due to the soil on which they are grown and severe air pollution. The study was performed to measure the content of iron (Fe), cobalt (Co), copper (Cu), chromium (Cr), nickel (Ni), arsenic (As), lead (Pb) and cadmium (Cd) in cereals The cereals, were bought from a local organic food producers. Preparing the sample include:owen drying of cereals and dissolutionin 6M HNO3. Furthermore, the sample then analysed by using the AAS method. A estimated daily intakes (EDIs) and noncarcinogenic risk was calculated by hazard index (HI). HI index of analyzed cereal samples was higher than 1 and indicate a potential health risk. Generaly, the consumers should pay attention to the excessive heavy metal accumulation in cereals caused probably by agriculture soil conditions, practice or storage before the cereals are sold in the markets.
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Sapcanin, A., Korac, S., Pehlivanović, B., Pehlic, E. (2022). Consumption of Cereals in Bosnia and Herzegovina- the Health Risk Calculation. In: Karabegović, I., Kovačević, A., Mandžuka, S. (eds) New Technologies, Development and Application V. NT 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 472. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05230-9_97
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