Table 4 Daily intake (μg) of five metals from health supplement products and tolerable daily intakes
From: Heavy metal content of herbal health supplement products in Dubai – UAE: a cross-sectional study
TDI | Single imputation (LOD) | Single imputation (LOD/2) | Kaplan Meir (KM) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean | Median | SD | Mean | Median | SD | Mean | Median | SD | ||
Arsenic (As) | 10.00 μg | 0.92 | 0.65 | 1.12 | 0.53 | 0.33 | 0.81 | 0.45 | NA | 0.72 |
Lead (Pb) | 20.00 μg | 0.88 | 0.65 | 0.98 | 0.48 | 0.33 | 0.57 | 0.38 | NA | 0.37 |
Cadmium (Cd) | 6.00 μg | 0.83 | 0.64 | 0.96 | 0.41 | 0.32 | 0.48 | NA | NA | NA |
Mercury (Hg) | 20.00 μg | 0.09 | 0.06 | 0.13 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.06 | 0.01 | NA | 0.008 |
Chromium (Cr) | – | 7.57 | 1.71 | 23.2 | 7.47 | 1.55 | 23.3 | 7.45 | 1.51 | 23.32 |