Heavy Metal Contents of aegean Region t obaCCos aCCoRding to Quality gRoups and stalk position
Articles > Article · 2012
Authors: Sıdıka EKREN, Adem GÖKÇÖL, Çiğdem SÖNMEZ
1310-0351, International, 2012
Summary
The study was carried out in Akhisar district of Ege Region in Turkey where tobacco is very popular in the growing period of 2004-2005. In this research, nine fields which are differences in terms of the quality and efficiency in the villages called Haciosmanlar, Arabacibozkoy, Derekoy, Mecidiye and Suleymanli were selected. Chromium, cobalt, nickel, zinc, arsenic, cadmium and lead contents of the tobaccos were analyzed. All analysis showed that there were significant differences among tobacco samples analyzed in different years, priming and also quality groups.After two years results of the study, arsenic, lead, chromium, cadmium, cobalt, zinc and nickel were measured as 0.18-0.98 ppm, 7.45-38.40 ppm, 4.37-28.60 ppm, 0.05-1.50 ppm, 1.10-5.45 ppm, 43.9-140.9 ppm, 6.00-10.85 ppm, respectively.