Monitoring of Heavy Metal Content in Fruits and Vegetables Collected from Production and Market Sites in the Misurata Area of Libya

Table 4

Levels of metals in fruits and vegetables in previously published results from other parts of the world [11–15].

sample	Pb	Cd	Zn	Cu	Co	Ni
Banana	7.46	13.36	45.64	14.19	25.40	8.90
Apple	23.48	8.39	35.88	3.00	185.90	47.43
Mango	67.20	16.9	18.29	6.34	6.23	—
Tomato	0.26	0.01	7.69	1.83	—	—
Onion	0.06	0.07	0.09	0.09	—	—
Potatoes	0.009	0.031	2.10	0.64