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The Uptake by Man of Cadmium Ingested in Crab Meat

Environmental and Medical Sciences Division, Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, Oxon

P. Johnson

Environmental and Medical Sciences Division, Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, Oxon

A.E. Lally

Environmental and Medical Sciences Division, Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, Oxon

R.J. Pentreath

Fisheries Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Lowestoft, Suffolk

D.J. Swift

Fisheries Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Lowestoft, Suffolk

Seven male volunteers with normal iron stores ate the brown meat from crabs whose diet had contained radioactive cadmium-115m. Systemic uptake of cadmium by the volunteers, derived from measurements of their residual body radioactivity several weeks after intake, averaged 2.7 ± 0.9 (se)%, essentially as found by others in studies with extrinsically labelled food.

Human & Experimental Toxicology, Vol. 3, No. 1, 23-28 (1984)
DOI: 10.1177/0960327184003001031


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