Table 8 Chronic daily intake and Hazard quotient indices with Reference dose for studied heavy metals
Heavy metals | Statistics | CDI mg/ kg-day | HQ | RfD mg/ kg-day a |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Fe | Min 0.07 Max 0.13 Mean 0.10 SD 0.023 | 0.002 0.004 0.003 0.0006 | 0.003 0.006 0.004 0.0009 | 0.7 |
Mn | Min 0.007 Max 0.018 Mean 0.010 SD 0.005 | 0.0002 0.0005 0.0003 0.0004 | 0.014 0.004 0.002 0.003 | 0.14 |
Zn | Min 0.006 Max 0.028 Mean 0.020 SD 0.009 | 0.0002 0.0008 0.0006 0.0003 | 0.0007 0.003 0. 002 0.001 | 0.3 |
Cd | BDL | BDL | BDL | 0.0005 |
Cr | BDL | BDL | BDL | 0.015 |
As | BDL | BDL | BDL | 0.0003 |