한약재 복용으로 인한 금속 섭취량 추정 및 위해성 평가 연구

• 영문명: Metal exposure through consumption of herbal medicine, and estimation of health risk among Korean population
• 발행기관: 한국환경보건학회
• 저자명: 박해모(Haemo Park) 최경호(Kyungho Choi) 정진용(Jinyong Jung) 이선동(Sundong Lee)
• 간행물 정보: 『1. 한국환경보건학회지』제32권 제2호, 186~191쪽, 전체 6쪽
• 주제분류: 공학 > 환경공학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2006.04.30

영문 초록

Metal contamination of medicinal herbs is of growing concern because of their potential adverse health effects. In thisstudy, metal exposures were estimated and their potential health risks were preliminarily evaluated using available dataincluding metal contamination levels and consumption estimates of herbal medicine in Korea. Consumption and contaminationdata of 34 medicinal herbs abundantly used in Oriental medicine in Korea were used in this study. Lead,mercury, arsenic, cadmium, cobalt, and chrome were identified as contaminants of potential health concerns. Evenbased on a conservative exposure scenario, i.e., consuming 5 times more herbal medicine with 95th percentile contaminationlevels, health risks associated with herbal medicine consumption were estimated to be minuscule. Herbalconsumption was 0.3% of the provisional tolerable daily intake levels recommended by Joint Expert Committee onFood Additives (JECFA) of WHO/FAO. However, it should be noted that there are several important assumptions anduncertainties associated with this evaluation: This study was conducted for only 34 types of medicinal herbs of whichconsumption and metal contamination data were available. In addition, there are no reliable herbal medicine consumptiondata among Korean population. The pattern and amount of herbal (medicine) consumption in Korea need tobe investigated in order to conduct more refined risk assessment associated with metal contamination in medicinal herbs.

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Ⅱ. 연구방법

Ⅲ. 결과 및 고찰

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키워드

herbal medicine risk estimation metal exposure metal contamination oriental medicine