Table 4.
Amounts of toxic metals intake by infants through human breast milk
| Descriptive parameters | Heavy metals intake by infants, (μg/Kg bw/day) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| As | Pb | Hg | Cd | |
| Geometric mean | 2.901 | 1.363 | 0.940 | 0.129 |
| SD | 2.223 | 1.960 | 1.116 | 0.117 |
| 95% CL (low) | 2.388 | 0.910 | 0.682 | 0.102 |
| 95% CL (high) | 3.415 | 1.816 | 1.197 | 0.156 |
| Median | 3.19 | 1.17 | 0.94 | 0.13 |
| Minimum | 1.05 | 0.42 | 0.22 | 0.06 |
| Maximum | 7.05 | 10.56 | 5.23 | 0.42 |
| WHO PTDI | 2.1a | 3.57–5.0a | 0.57–0.8 | 0.8–1.0 |
| % above WHO DPI | 46.36 | 4.35 | 33.33 | 0.00 |
awithdrawn PTWI at the 2011 JECFA. Average weight of the 3 months old infants who participated in this study was 6.37 (95% CI of 6.17–6.57) Kg. Evaluations of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) 2011. http://apps.who.int/food-additives-contaminants-jecfa-database/chemical.aspx?chemID=4197