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Volume 9
Journal of Community Medicine & Health Education
Public Health Congress 2019
May 15-16, 2019
May 15-16, 2019 Singapore
7
th
World Congress on
Public Health, Nutrition & Epidemiology
J Community Med Health Educ 2019, Volume 9
DOI: 10.4172/2161-0711-C3-060
Cadmium contamination in consuming foods and biological samples in Iran
Mohammad Hadi Dehghani, Mahboobeh Ghoochani, Noushin Rastkari, Masud Yunesian, Ramin Nabizadeh Nodehi, Alireza Mesdaghinia, Anahita
Houshiarrad and Mansour Shamsipour
Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
C
admium is an important environmental contaminant. High consumption of chemical fertilizers and industrial activities
in recent decades has caused people to be worried about exposure to cadmium. There is no policy for environmental and
biological monitoring of exposure to cadmium in the general population in Iran. This study was aimed to review cadmium
content in consuming foods and biological samples in Iran, systematically. We developed a comprehensive search strategy
and used it to search on Web of Science, Scopus, Science Direct and Scientific Information Database until 28 December
2016. The totals of 285 articles were identified and finally 31 original papers were selected. Cadmium contamination was
found in Iranian food groups such as rice, cereal and legumes, canned tuna fish, vegetables, fruit juice and egg. This study
showed that cadmium amount in 75% of the consumed rice samples (domestic and imported) was higher than the maximum
limits approved by institute of standards and industrial research of Iran. Lettuce samples in Yazd were recorded the highest
concentration of cadmium compared to other studies. In addition, high amount of cadmium was observed in the blood of the
general population. Regarding the cadmium contamination in food and blood samples in Iran, policies must be adopted to
reduce exposure to cadmium through different matrices as much as possible.
hdehghani@tums.ac.ir