Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Table 4 Relation of food groups with Cd and Pb in daily foods

From: Food intake survey of kindergarten children in Korea: Part 3 cadmium and lead burden

Food group		Food intake (g/day)^a					Corr. with Cd-D^c		Corr. with Pb-D^c
No.	Name	AM	ASD	Min	Max	MED	r ^d	p	r ^d	p
1	Cereals	332.8	87.6	161.9	647.7	326.9	0.25	<0.01	0.13	ns
2	Potatoes	22.0	32.4	0	210.3	12.9	−0.09	ns^e	0.09	ns
9	Meats	42.1	38.9	0	192.6	31.6	−0.04	ns	0.13	ns
11	Fish^b	32.5	25.8	0	141.0	26.9	0.35	<0.01	0.09	ns
12	Seaweeds	6.7	13.5	0	80.8	2.0	0.08	ns	0.16	ns

^a n = 108
^bFishes and shellfishes
^cCorrelation coefficient between Cd-D (or Pb-D) and the amount consumed of the food group
^dCorrelation coefficient
^e ns non-significant (p ≧ 0.05)

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