M. Ikeda et al., BACKGROUND EXPOSURE OF GENERAL-POPULATION TO CADMIUM AND LEAD IN TAINAN CITY, TAIWAN, Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology, 30(1), 1996, pp. 121-126
Venous blood samples, 24-h total food duplicate samples, and rice samp
les were collected from 52 adult non-smoking women in the city of Tain
an, southern Taiwan, in 1994, and analyzed for cadmium (Cd) and lead (
Pb) by wet-digestion followed by graphite furnace atomic absorption sp
ectrophotometry. Daily dietary intake was 10 mu g for Cd and 22 mu g f
or Pb as geometric means, of which Cd and Pb in rice accounted for 34%
and 1.4% of daily Cd and Pb intakes, respectively. The counterpart va
lues for blood were 1.11 ng/ml and 44.5 ng/ml for Cd and Pb, respectiv
ely. International comparison with recently published data suggests th
at the exposure to Cd in Tainan should be among the lowest in the worl
d.