Table 4 Heavy metal concentrations and MPI in muscles during winter and summer seasons, 2019
Seasons | Sites | Fe (mg/kg dry weight) | Cu (mg/kg dry weight) | Zn (mg/kg dry weight) | Cd (mg/kg dry weight) | Pb (mg/kg dry weight) | Ni (mg/kg dry weight) | MPI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Winter | Western sector | 33.69±1.05 | 3.25±1.34 | 20.21±1.84 | 0.07±0.02 | 0.24±0.11 | 0.77±0.12 | 1.75 |
Northern sector | 47.25±3.05 | 5.23±0.84 | 24.12±3.30 | 0.09±0.02 | 0.56±0.04 | 1.19±0.01 | 2.66 | |
Southern sector | 136.67±6.65 | 10.72±1.26 | 68.44±4.16 | 0.16±0.03 | 0.80±0.11 | 2.81±0.26 | 5.75 | |
Eastern sector | 111.21±1.59 | 8.52±0.58 | 72.88±3.05 | 0.21±0.03 | 0.85±0.15 | 3.19±0.21 | 5.83 | |
Mean | 82.21±44.99 | 6.93±3.15 | 46.41±25.56 | 0.13±0.06 | 0.61±0.27 | 2.00±1.08 | 4.01 | |
A | A | A | A | A | A | |||
Summer | Western sector | 46.27±5.57 | 2.62±0.53 | 43.41±1.57 | 0.09±0.02 | 0.11±0.06 | 1.25±0.14 | 2.01 |
Northern sector | 54.80±5.40 | 2.79±0.54 | 48.62±1.55 | 0.12±0.01 | 0.30±0.02 | 1.47±0.12 | 2.71 | |
Southern sector | 119.85±5.45 | 11.22±0.65 | 67.82±2.30 | 0.19±0.01 | 1.00±0.17 | 3.03±0.13 | 6.12 | |
Eastern sector | 151.88±5.22 | 8.10±0.55 | 99.29±3.60 | 0.30±0.01 | 1.09±0.21 | 3.43±0.13 | 7.18 | |
Mean | 93.20±46.44 | 6.18±3.84 | 64.79±22.96 | 0.17±0.08 | 0.62±0.46 | 2.29±1.00 | 4.51 | |
A | A | A | A | A | A | |||
All over mean | Western sector | 39.98±7.77 | 2.93±0.97 | 31.81±12.80 | 0.08±0.02 | 0.18±0.11 | 1.01±0.29 |  |
b | c | c | c | c | d | |||
Northern sector | 51.03±5.70 | 4.01±1.47 | 36.37±13.62 | 0.10±0.02 | 0.43±0.14 | 1.33±0.17 | ||
b | c | c | c | b | c | |||
Southern sector | 128.26±10.70 | 10.97±0.94 | 68.13±3.02 | 0.18±0.03 | 0.90±0.17 | 2.92±0.22 | ||
a | b | b | b | a | b | |||
Eastern sector | 131.55±22.54 | 8.31±0.55 | 86.09±14.77 | 0.25±0.05 | 0.97±0.21 | 3.31±0.20 | ||
a | a | a | a | a | a | |||
P.L | 5 | 5 | 40 | 0.5 | 2 | 0.5–0.6 | ||
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