Element Contents in Three Commercially Important Edible Mollusks Harvested off the Southwestern Coast of Crimea (Black Sea) and Assessment of Human Health Risks from Their Consumption
Journal: Foods
Year: 2021

Mollusks are a prospective food for the world's growing population, but the contents of toxic and essential trace elements in them have not been studied comprehensively. In this work, using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, the contents of 72 elements in soft tissues of the edible mollusks <i>Mytilus galloprovincialis</i>, <i>Rapana venosa</i>, and <i>Crassostrea gigas</i> from the coastal area of the southwestern Crimea were estimated and compared with the maximum permissible levels