Assessment of Concentration of some Heavy Metals in Sausage of Beef, Goat and Camel meat and Conformity with International Standards

Abstract

The aim of this study was to assess the concentration of lead, cadmium, mercury, arsenic, zinc, chromium, nickel, copper, manganese and iron in the sausage of beef, goat and camel meat and conformity with international standards. The meat samples were randomly collected from public market in Khartoum state and processed. The results of this study showed that, there was no significant difference between beef, goat and camel sausage in the level of lead, cadmium, mercury and arsenic, however the concentration in beef, goat and camel sausage were lower than detection limits (equipment reading 0.001), also the result showed, there was high significant difference (p≤0.01) in chromium, copper and iron between difference type of sausage and no significant difference between type of sausage in manganese, zinc and nickel. all the heavy metals in all type of sausage were conformed with FAO (2003), European Commission (EC 1881, 2006), Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ, 2015), China standard (2006) and gulf standards (2015).