Antimony is naturally occurring in the environment. The assessment of human exposure to environmental antimony is limited. This research focuses on the determination of antimony in water, beverages, and fruit.
First, we explored whether there is a correlation between arsenic and antimony in water samples with a wide range of arsenic and antimony concentrations. The results showed absent correlation.
Second, we determined antimony concentrations in bottled beverages including bottled water, soft drinks, juices and alcoholic drinks from Canada. The results showed that the antimony in most of these samples were below the Health Canada Guideline (6 g/L) for drinking water except one alcoholic drink which contains 7 g/L antimony.
Further analysis of lemons and oranges using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) separation and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) detection demonstrated the presence of antimonycitrate species in these fruits, which has not been reported in literature.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:AEU.10048/1631 |
| Date | 06 1900 |
| Creators | Xia, Yunlong |
| Contributors | Le, X.Chris (Laboratory Medicine and Pathology), Li, Xingfang (Laboratory Medicine and Pathology), Keelan, Monika (Laboratory Medicine and Pathology), Lew, Kristi (Laboratory Medicine and Pathology), Kindzierski, Warren (Public Health Sciences) |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 423814 bytes, application/pdf |
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