title: Accumulation of heavy metals in animals. Part 1: Lead and cadmium contamination in some wild animals.
abstract: The accumulation of the heavy metals lead and cadmium in the liver of wild animals reveals when also not so alarming, an anthropogenic source of influence from industrial procedures. A great deal of the high mean values distributed in the literature appear to be more a problem of data evaluation, where few, but higher deviation values caused by sample contamination distorts the picture. Apart from samples with heavy lead deposits due to the gun shot, it is not necessary to advise against the consumption of venison.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Hygiene, University of Graz, Austria.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Köck
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Kosmus
authors.forename: F P
authors.initials: FP
authors.lastname: Pichler-Semmelrock
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Sixl
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000835:Animals, Wild / Q000378:metabolism*; D001317:Austria; D002104:Cadmium / Q000493:pharmacokinetics / Q000633:toxicity*; D004785:Environmental Pollutants / Q000493:pharmacokinetics / Q000633:toxicity*; D007854:Lead / Q000493:pharmacokinetics / Q000633:toxicity*; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism*; D014018:Tissue Distribution
chemical_list: D004785:Environmental Pollutants; D002104:Cadmium; D007854:Lead