Mercury in Macrolepiota procera (Scop.) Singer and Its Underlying Substrate-Environmental and Health Risks Assessment

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/jof7090772" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.3390/jof7090772</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jof7090772" target="_blank" >10.3390/jof7090772</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Mercury in Macrolepiota procera (Scop.) Singer and Its Underlying Substrate-Environmental and Health Risks Assessment

Original language description

Wild-growing edible mushrooms are valuable food with a high content of proteins, fibers, antioxidants, and they are characterized by their specific taste and flavor. However, from an ecotoxicological point of view, they are a risk commodity because of their extremely high bioaccumulative capacity to accumulate the risk elements and contaminants from the environment. In the present study, we examined mercury (Hg) contamination in 230 fruiting bodies of Macrolepiota procera (Scop.) Singer and 230 soil/substrate samples, which were collected in foraging seasons 2015-2019 from 22 different locations in Slovakia. Total mercury content was determined by cold-vapor AAS analyzer AMA 254. The level of contamination and environmental risks were assessed by contamination factor (C-f), index of geoaccumulation (I-geo), and potential environmental risk index (PER). Bioaccumulation factor (BAF) was calculated for individual anatomical parts of M. procera. Mercury content in the soil/substrate samples varied between 0.02 and 0.89 mg kg(-1) DW, and in mushroom samples between 0.03 and 2.83 mg kg(-1) DW (stems), and between 0.04 and 6.29 mg kg(-1) DW (caps). The obtained results were compared with the provisional tolerable weekly intake for Hg defined by WHO to determine a health risk resulting from regular and long-term consumption of M. procera.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10612 - Mycology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Fungi

ISSN

2309-608X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

7

Issue of the periodical within the volume

9

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

772

UT code for WoS article

000699673100001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85115625503