Metal Contamination in Milk: A Potential Human Health Toxicity
Mahmood Ahmed
Institute of Chemistry, University of the Punjab, Renacon Pharma Limited, Lahore, Pakistan
Dr. Mahmood Ahmed, Institute of Chemistry, University of the Punjab, Renacon Pharma Limited, Lahore, Pakistan.
Keywords: Toxicity; Lacteal Secretion
Milk is one of the most important food in daily life providing rich nutrients is produced by lacteal secretion from mammal’s mammary glands. Varieties of milk contains all essential ingredients although differ in odor, taste and chemical composition. It is an exclusive healthy food which cannot replace by any other food required for maintenance of life of both adults as well as for the infants.
Milk contains more than twenty trace elements which are essential and important for life cycle completion of an organism, deficiency of these elements can induce metabolic changes. Ca, Mn, Fe, Cu, Zn and Se are the prominent elements play role in physiological functions and co-factors in many enzymes in humans.
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