Table 3.

Cadmium concentrations (mg/kg) in sardine and shrimp samples collected from different Egyptian governorates through different seasons.

Sample	Season	Governorate				LSD
		Alexandria	Kafr El-Shaikh	Damietta	Port Said
Sardine	Winter 2019	0.042g ± 0.013	0.377a ± 0.017	0.200d ± 0.010	0.035g ± 0.008	0.029
	Summer 2020	<d.l.	0.275c ± 0.019	0.084f ± 0.005	<d.l.
	Winter 2020	0.033g ± 0.007	0.311b ± 0.015	0.194d ± 0.009	<d.l.
	Summer 2021	<d.l.	0.125e ± 0.014	0.078f ± 0.006	<d.l.
Shrimp	Winter 2019	0.101e ± 0.008	0.331a ± 0.019	0.312a ± 0.014	0.073e ± 0.007	0.030
	Summer 2020	0.041f ± 0.005	0.171d ± 0.013	0.158d ± 0.008	<d.l.
	Winter 2020	0.079e ± 0.008	0.266b ± 0.016	0.233c ± 0.014	<d.l.
	Summer 2021	0.035f ± 0.004	0.165d ± 0.013	0.150d ± 0.010	<d.l.

Means followed by different subscripts are significantly different at the 5 % level; <dl: below detection limit

LOD and LOQ were 0.002 and 0.0076 mg/l, respectively; Recovery was 98 %.