Determination of Cadmium and Arsenic pollution by Bee Honey Based on the study on Ja'far abad area from Saveh city from IRAN

摘要

The elemental content of bee honey depends on the geo-botany, biogeochemistry and environmental parameters of the respective area. Content of some heavy metals specially Arsenic, Cadmium and Lead were analyzed in some samples of natural honey from Ja'far Abad area from Saveh city, IRAN by ICP-OES method. The mean values for those toxic elements were (in μg g-l): Cd: 0.0271 and As:4.28 that were more than amount of normal bee honey. The results compared with the ICP-OES and AAS analyzes from Turkey, Pakistan and Argentine and showed the Cadmium and Arsenic geochemical pollution of that region as a result of low distance to polluted area.