Safety, quality attributes, and health risk assessments of sand smelt fish
Gehad A. Ezzat, Gehan M.A. Kassem, Nermeen M.L. Malak

TL;DR
This study evaluated the safety, nutritional value, and health risks of sand-smelt fish in Egyptian markets, finding it to be nutritious and safe for consumption.
Contribution
The study provides a comprehensive health risk assessment and quality evaluation of sand-smelt fish in Egypt.
Findings
Sand-smelt fish is rich in protein and has low fat, moisture, and ash content.
Microbiological and heavy metal levels in the fish were within safe limits, indicating good quality and low health risks.
THQ and HI values were below 1, suggesting minimal non-carcinogenic and carcinogenic risks.
Abstract
This study investigated the nutritional values, microbiological quality, heavy metal content, and their health risk assessment in sand-smelt fish (Atherina boyeri) in Egyptian markets. Fifty samples of sand-smelt fish were obtained from fish markets in Cairo and Giza Governorates. Fish samples were exposed to chemical analysis (protein, fat, moisture, and ash content), deterioration criteria [pH, Total volatile basic nitrogen (TVB-N), Trimethylamine (TMA), Thiobarbituric acid (TBA), Free Fatty Acids (FFA), Acid Number content (AN)], microbial testing (aerobic bacterial count (APC), psychrotrophic, Enterobacteriaceae, total coliforms, faecal coliforms, pseudomonas, and Aeromonas species), determination of heavy metals and their health risk assessment parameters. The study revealed that sand-smelt fish meat is rich in protein (18.53%), and contains a low-fat content (1.70%). Also, it…
Genes, proteins, chemicals, diseases, species, mutations and cell lines named across the full text — each resolved to its canonical identifier and authoritative record.
Click any figure to enlarge with its caption.
Figure 1
Figure 2
Figure 3Peer Reviews
No public reviews on file for this paper yet. If you reviewed it on a platform where reviews are public (OpenReview, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML), you can paste yours below so the community can read it here.
Videos
No videos yet. Explain this paper in a talk, walkthrough, or lecture? Add one.
Taxonomy
TopicsMercury impact and mitigation studies · Heavy metals in environment · Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
