Table 13 Comparison of heavy metal values in muscles of O. niloticus fish with previous studies in northern lakes and other localities
References | Heavy metal (μg/g) in fish muscles | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mn | Zn | Fe | Ni | Cu | Pb | |
El-Moselhy (1999) | – | 5.96 | 4.32 | – | 0.51 | 0.13 |
Radwan and Shakweer (2004) | – | 19.26 | – | 6.31 | 4.9 | 7.64 |
Saeed and Shaker (2008) | – | 9.88 | 21.44 | – | 1.77 | 0.016 |
Basiony (2009) | – | – | – | – | 1.43 | 6.45 |
Basiony (2014) | – | 18.7 | 27.14 | 1.45 | 0.36 | 1.29 |
The present study | 0.68 | 4.70 | 10.62 | 0.52 | 0.39 | 0.46 |