Analysis of Main Arsenic Species in Canned Fish Marketed in the Czech Republic and Austria

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Antonín Kaňa, Richard Koplík, Simone Braeuer, Walter Goessler and Oto Mestek
 

Abstract

Total arsenic and water-soluble arsenic species were determined in canned fish bought in Graz (n = 6) and Prague (n = 8) with inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry and anion-exchange liquid chromatography. A difference in total arsenic content between samples from Prague (mean 3.4; standard deviation (s.d.) 1.2 mg kg–1) and Graz (mean 2.5; s.d. 0.7 mg kg–1) was not significant, however Prague samples differed in abundance of arsenobetaine (mean 83% of extractable arsenic; s.d. 16%) vs. Graz samples (mean 66%; s.d. 10%). No differences in total arsenic were caused by fish species (mackerel, sardine, herring, tuna) and origin (Northeast and Eastern-central Atlantic).

Published on: January 29, 2018
doi: 10.17756/jfcn.2018-052
Citation: Kaňa A, Koplík R, Braeuer S, Goessler W, Mestek O. 2018. Analysis of Main Arsenic Species in Canned Fish Marketed in the Czech Republic and Austria. J Food Chem Nanotechnol 4(1): 10-17.
 
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