Table 2.
Estimated daily intake of the metals identified in various tissues of two fish species obtained from Eleyele and Ogun Rivers.
| Site | Specie | Organ | Expected Daily Intake (10−5 mg/kg/dw) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| As | Cd | Co | Cr | Mn | Ni | Pb | |||
| Ogun River | Clarias gariepinus | Liver | 19.0 | 1.25 | 0.65 | – | – | 2.42 | 1.43 |
| Muscle | 14.0 | – | 0.64 | 0.04 | – | 3.21 | 3.26 | ||
| Gills | 24.0 | 0.33 | 1.06 | 0.16 | – | 4.9 | 2.83 | ||
| Sarotherodon melanotheron | Gills | 78.0 | 1.32 | 1.33 | 0.48 | 0.27 | 4.15 | 3.85 | |
| Liver | 94.0 | 1.71 | 1.43 | 0.16 | 0.52 | 4.78 | 3.61 | ||
| Muscle | 52.0 | 1.30 | – | 0.32 | 0.61 | 3.72 | 2.06 | ||
| Eleyele River |
Clarias gariepinus | Gills | 28.0 | 1.34 | 0.84 | 0.48 | 0.75 | 3.6 | 3.34 |
| Liver | – | 1.06 | 0.75 | 0.16 | 0.80 | 3.59 | 2.83 | ||
| Muscle | 56.0 | 0.88 | 1.43 | 0.48 | – | 1.77 | 1.81 | ||
| Sarotherodon melanotheron | Gills | 8.3 | 1.16 | 1.16 | 0.05 | – | 0.41 | 4.63 | |
| Liver | – | – | 0.03 | – | – | 3.63 | 1.04 | ||
| Muscle | – | 0.27 | 0.11 | 0.06 | – | 1.7 | 3.23 | ||