Zeneli, Vehbi and Heta, Ganimete and Pavlova, Valentina and Pavlovska, Gorica (2024) ACCUMULATION OF HEAVY METALS IN APPLES AND PEARS FROM THE SUBURBS OF MITROVICA, KOSOVO. International Journal of Food Technology and Nutrition.
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Intake of heavy metals through the food is a food safety problem that seriously affects consumer health.
Therefore, information is needed on the intake of food contaminated with heavy metals and their
concentrations, to assess the potential risk for human health. This paper aims to determine the accumulation of
metals in apples and pears grown in the surroundings of Kosovska Mitrovica (Republic of Kosovo) and the
bioconcentration factor (BF).
With the help of the ICP-MS technique, were determined the amounts of Cu, Fe, Co, Mn, Ni, and Cr in apples
and pears grown in three regions - Zvečan , Frashër, and Polski.
From the conducted tests, the highest concentrations in apples and pears were determined for iron (on average
100.67 mg/kg for apples and 107.4 mg/kg for pears) and the lowest concentrations for cobalt (on average 0.13
mg/kg for apples and 0.18 mg/kg for pears). The lowest bioconcentration factor in apples is 0.01 (for Fe, Co,
and Mn in all three regions), and the highest is 0.32 (for Cr in Zvečan). When determining the bioconcentration
factor in pears, the lowest (0.01) was determined for iron (in all three regions) and manganese (in Zvečan and
Frashër regions), and the highest bioconcentration factor was determined for copper – 0.46 (Polski region).
There is a very high correlation between the values obtained for the analyzed metals in apples and pears.
According to BF values, pears extract twice as much Cu and Co from the soil compared to apples, and the
extraction of other metals from the soil is the same for both types of fruit.
Keywords: heavy metals, apples, pears, bioconcentration.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Scientific Fields (Frascati) > Natural sciences > Chemical sciences Scientific Fields (Frascati) > Agricultural Sciences > Other agricultural sciences |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Technology and Technical Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Mr Jordan Martinovski |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Nov 2025 12:55 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Nov 2025 12:55 |
| URI: | https://eprints.uklo.edu.mk/id/eprint/11226 |
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