TY  - JOUR
TT  - Determination of contaminants in drinking water
AU  - Türksoy, Vugar Ali
AU  - Tutkun, Lütfiye
AU  - Tanın, Okan
PY  - 2017
DA  - November
JF  - The Turkish Journal Of Occupational / Environmental Medicine and Safety
JO  - turjoem
PB  - Engin TUTKUN
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2149-4711
SP  - 55
EP  - 55
VL  - 2
IS  - 1(4)
KW  - Determination of contaminants in drinking water
N2  - Drinking and tap water supplies inmany geographic areas contain chromium. Certain contaminants, such ashexavalent chromium(chromium-6), steel and pulp mills, a metal used in metalprocessing, and the tanning industry, aren't removed by standard tap filters.Acidic environments with high organic content lend wings to the reduction ofchromium-6 to nontoxic trivalent chromium(chromium-3). Public health worriesare centered on the presence of chromium-6 that is classified as "likelyto be carcinogenic to humans" by the U.S. Environmental ProtectionAgency(EPA). In addition to this chromium-6 in drinking water has been linkedto certain stomach cancers. Exposure of animals to chromium-6 in drinking waterinduced tumors in the alimentary tract, with responses in the mouse smallintestine. The widest form of DNA damage induced by chromium-6 is Cr-DNAadducts, which cause mutations and chromosomal breaks. Otherwise, chroniciron(Fe) overload results primarily from genetic disarray characterized byincreased iron absorption and from diseases that require frequent transfusions.In this study, 12 spring waters and 7tap waters analyzed. Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectroscopy(ICP-MS)system was utilized for metals concentration in spring and tap waters. Furthermore,Ion Chromatography(IC) system was evaluated for anion and cation determinationin spring and tap waters. The chromium levels were above the limit values inthe tap waters, moreover, above the limit values in 25% of the spring watersand proximate to the permissible limits in 75%. Therewithal, the ironconcentrations in tap water, both in spring water, were above the permissiblelimits. People in Yozgat city drinkchromium-polluted tap water, much of it likely in the cancer-causing hexavalentform. Moreover, people here also use tap water to prepare meals. Given thescope of exposure and the magnitude of the potential risk, we believes requirepublic water suppliers to test for it. However, we believe that it is necessaryto support the independent bodies like ours(BOZOK UNIVERSITY-BILTEM-TOXICOLOGYLABORATORY) to carry out analyzes at certain intervals. Key Words:  chromium, iron, drinking water, toxicity
CR  - Vugar Ali Türksoy (1), Lütfiye Tutkun (2), Okan Tanın (3)
(1) Bozok University, Department of Public Health, Yozgat, Turkey
(2) Bozok University, Department of Medical Biochemistry, Yozgat, Turkey
(3) Department of Public Health, Erciyes University Medical Faculty, Kayseri, Turkey
UR  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/turjoem/issue//386018
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/413926
ER  -