TY - JOUR ID - 40207 TI - Estimation of target hazard quotients for heavy metals intake through the consumption of fish from Sirvan River in Kermanshah Province, Iran JO - Journal of Advances in Environmental Health Research JA - JAEHR LA - en SN - 2676-3478 AU - Mansouri, Borhan AU - Maleki, Afshin AU - Davari, Behrouz AU - Karimi, Jamal AU - Momeneh, Vahid AD - Student Research Committee AND Environmental Health Research Center Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran AD - Environmental Health Research Center, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran AD - Department of Entomology, School of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran AD - Department of Biology, School of Sciences, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran AD - Kermanshah Regional Water Authority, Kermanshah, Iran Y1 - 2015 PY - 2015 VL - 3 IS - 4 SP - 235 EP - 241 KW - gills KW - Liver KW - Metals KW - Carp KW - body weight DO - 10.22102/jaehr.2015.40207 N2 - The aim of this research was to investigate concentrations of cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), chromium (Cr), copper (Cu), and zinc (Zn) in the muscle, gill, and liver of common carp (Cyprinus carpio), tuwini (Capoeta trutta), and Grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) from Sirvan River, Kermanshah Province, Iran, during November to December 2014. This investigation was conducted in order to determine the potential health risk of the intake of these metals through the consumption of the edible parts of fish and also to assess the safe dietary intake levels of these metals. The results of the present study indicated that the highest and lowest accumulated metal concentrations were related to Zn and Cd, respectively. Moreover, the metal concentrations in the gill and liver were higher than in the muscles of the three fish species. The target hazard quotients (THQs) for an adult with mean body weight of 71.5 kg were below 1 based on Cd, Pb, Cr, Cu, and Zn levels. In conclusion, the obtained results indicated that the levels of metals in the edible muscle of fish species in this study were below the level of concern for human consumption.  UR - https://jaehr.muk.ac.ir/article_40207.html L1 - https://jaehr.muk.ac.ir/article_40207_5da42c77c78033fac29bd367ee275ffa.pdf ER -