The Concentration of Heavy Metals and Microbial Contaminants in Baby Food | ||
| Journal of Tikrit University For Agriculture Sciences | ||
| Article 1, Volume 16, Issue 3, September 2016, Pages 220-233 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Zahraa Dhafer Abdul-Hameed; Rafid Khalil; Ilham I. Tami | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Study involved carrying out chemical tests and microbiological tests to detect the heavy metals and biological pollutives are found in samples of baby food. So the results show the heavy metals such as iron and zinc are found in more than one type of baby food. The two highest amounts of concentration that had been obtained were in Cerelac, wheat and honey, products and rice with milk which came to 456.3 a part per million and 77.59 a part per million successively. The results of examination for microbiological pollutives in baby food show the existence of bacteria E.coli, Clostridium perfringens, Cl.difficile, Bacilluss, staphylococcus aureus, B.subtilus, in cirilac (wheat and honey) and cirilac (eheat, milk, fruit mixture) and rice with milk and cornflakes and cocopope successively with amounts reached to 18.35, 28.29 and 14.15 gram/o.t.m, while the total amount of microbes 3*10, 6*10, 3*10, 9*10, 78102 gram/o.t.m, in these materials. But the results show that nesquik and Osmospase are free from the pollution by any kind of these microbes. The results of the infection on rat feeding with baby food, group of cereals and its products which contained on heavy elements show in standards pictures of rat blood that the total number of hemoleukocytes WBC has abstractly raised in number at level (P<0.05) when it was 5.70 and 11.80 mm3/ cell in sequence when the rats were feeding on baby food compared with group of control which were 3.90 mm3/cell. As to the size of closely packed cells HTC it was affected on rats given group of baby food as this food caused lower in the size of closely packed cell HTC compared with group of control as the results were 33.40% and 32.40% while group of control were 42.40%. As to the rate of size of globule MCV it has abstractly gone down in condition that rats given to group of baby foods as they were 48.00 and 46.00 µm3 in sequence compared with group of control which recorded 50.0 µm3 while there was abstract change an rats given to group of cereals and its products as they recorded 51.3, 51.7, 47.40. 46.70 µm3, in sequence compared with the group of control which recorded 50.60 µm3. The results show many of tissue changes after the feeding of rats on baby food which contained heavy elements compared with group of control. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Heavy metals; Microbial Contaminants; Baby Food | ||
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