Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
4th International Conference on Advanced Engineering Technologies, Bayburt, Türkiye, 28 - 30 Eylül 2022, ss.345-350
With increasing population and industrialization, environmental pollution is increasing rapidly. Various studies are carried out to reduce environmental pollution around the world. Many industrial wastes seriously threaten the health of living things. Recently, heavy metal pollution, which has attracted attention, generally occurs in this way. Therefore, it is inevitable that the increasing heavy metal concentration will pass to foods through different sources. Consumption of pollutionfree, quality and standard food is very important for our health. With foods, heavy metals intake into the body and cause many diseases such as various types of cancer, anaemia, cardiovascular diseases, kidney failures, digestive and nervous system disorders. Milk and dairy products, which have important in our diet, carry the risk of heavy metal contamination. White cheese, which is consumed a lot in our country, is one of the dairy products with heavy metal pollution. In white cheese, tools and equipment used in production, packaging materials and the dairy plants in areas close to industrial areas are the important causes of heavy metal contamination. Also, it is known that the heavy metal detected may be from milk. In national and international legal regulations, the maximum limits of some heavy metals intake by the body were determined. However, various foods carried out draw attention to the high amounts of some heavy metals detected. In this review, the effects of heavy metals on health and the ways of their contamination with food were investigated, and in white cheese, studies on heavy metal pollution were examined in detail. Increasing the detection of heavy metals in all foods offered for consumption and expanding the legal regulations will be considered important in terms of protecting human health.