Determination of cadmium in bovine tissue by spectrophotometry of atomic absorption

The present work utilized the suggested method by Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) for the analysis of cadmium in animal tissue, it was adapted by the Toxicology's Laboratory of MAG, where the project was organized. This method consist of a burning of sample and the instrumental analysis by means of the atomic absorption's technique. In the study there were determined parameters of carrying out of the analytical methodology, it was getting the following values: linearity : 0,020 -1,0 mg/L; homogeneity of the model: homoscedastic; limit of detection (LD) : 0,0049 mg/kg (4,9 μg/Kg); limit of quantification (LC): 0,016 μg/L (16 mg/kg); sensibility of calibration: 0,243 A * L/gm; analytical sensibility: 105 L/mg; instrumental repetitively: < 4,3%; repetitively of gauges < 3,5%; reproducibility of methodology: 13,4% (expressed like variation's coefficient); truthfulness: 86,5%; selectivity and specificity: there isn't interferences of matrix, chemical or of ionization when the wavelength utilized is of 228,8 nm. It was made an study to determinate the present cadmium's quantities in three tissues of bovine origin; of an total of 20 animals there were gotten the following averages: muscles: 37,5 μg/kg, liver: 93,7 μg/kg and kidney: 253,4 μg/kg. Additionally, it was determined the correlation that exist among the contents of the metal and other variations, like sex, approximate age, as well as the stock sort: dairy or meat, where there were observed significant differences to a level of confidence of 95%, among the contents of Cadmium in muscle of meat stock and the dairy stock, being major the accumulation to the meat stock and the dairy stock, this like a difference of the other variations where didn't find a significant difference. Besides, it was determined, the metal's accumulation in two different kidney's zones: medullar and cortical, being significantly major in the last one, with a correlation of 99,5%. (Author)