DETERMINATION OF SELENIUM IN HUMAN DIETS BY RADIOCHEMICAL NEUTRON-ACTIVATION ANALYSIS

1992-03-01
ELHALLAQ, YH
GOKMEN, IG
ARAS, NK
Gökmen, Ali
A post-irradiation radiochemical separation technique was tested for the determination of selenium levels in diet samples, collected by using a duplicate portion technique, from both rural and urban population groups in Turkey. The technique involved sample irradiation, acid digestion, selective distillation, precipitation and filtration steps. During the separations it was possible to determine the yield of each sample using a stable selenium carrier. An average chemical yield of 71 +/- 3% was obtained for the radiochemical neutron activation analysis. For samples from urban and rural regions, the average selenium concentrations obtained were 0.14 +/- 0.04 and 0.07 +/- 0.02 mg kg-1, respectively. It was also possible to determine daily dietary selenium intakes, which were found to be 81 +/- 41-mu-g and 23 +/- 11-mu-g for the urban and rural groups, respectively. Although daily selenium intakes were found for a small number of subjects in this study, the separation technique developed can be used for determination of the selenium status in larger population groups.

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Citation Formats
Y. ELHALLAQ, I. GOKMEN, N. ARAS, and A. Gökmen, “DETERMINATION OF SELENIUM IN HUMAN DIETS BY RADIOCHEMICAL NEUTRON-ACTIVATION ANALYSIS,” ANALYST, pp. 447–451, 1992, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/63304.