Health risk assessment for consuming bocachico and dama with heavy metals

Abstract

The present research has by objective determine the risk to her health by ingestion of metals heavy starting from fish of water sweet. To carry out the study the method was in use frequency of consumption, which was consisting of realizing surveys to a group of persons of the city of Quevedo. For the analysis of risk for consumption of fish, there took information of bibliographical reference of three inorganic toxins (Pb, Hg and Ace) in samples of bocachico and lady of the thesis of Alcívar Choez of 2015. For the calculation of the distributions of frequencies there was in use a specific program of distribution calculation and assessment of risk, called DecisionTools Suite v.7. According to the analysis of risk there is a percentage of less than the 0.2% of the population that can be at risk by intake excessive of the lead and mercury metallic due to the consumption of these two species of fish and a 5% of risk by intake of methylmercury in both species. In what is refers to the arsenic a 99.9% of the population would be exempt of risk by intake of arsenic if the only sources were exclusively these two species.