Data on heavy metals and selected anions in the Persian popular herbal distillates

Mozhgan Keshtkar; Sina Dobaradaran; Farshid Soleimani; Vahid Noroozi Karbasdehi; Mohammad Javad Mohammadi; Roghayeh Mirahmadi; Fatemeh Faraji Ghasemi

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2016.05.005

Data on heavy metals and selected anions in the Persian popular herbal distillates

Data Brief. 2016 May 12:8:21-5. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2016.05.005. eCollection 2016 Sep.

Authors

Mozhgan Keshtkar¹, Sina Dobaradaran², Farshid Soleimani¹, Vahid Noroozi Karbasdehi¹, Mohammad Javad Mohammadi³, Roghayeh Mirahmadi¹, Fatemeh Faraji Ghasemi¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Faculty of Health, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran.
² Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Faculty of Health, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran; The Persian Gulf Marine Biotechnology Research Center, The Persian Gulf Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Boostan 19 Alley, Imam Khomeini Street, Bushehr, Iran; Systems Environmental Health, Oil, Gas and Energy Research Center, The Persian Gulf Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran.
³ Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health and Environmental Technologies Research Centre, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Iran.

Abstract

In this data article, we determined the concentration levels of heavy metals including Pb, Co, Cd, Mn, Mg, Fe and Cu as well as selected anions including [Formula: see text] , [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] in the most used and popular herbal distillates in Iran. It is well known that heavy metals may pose a serious health hazard due to their bioaccumulation throughout the trophic chain ("Heavy metals (Cd, Cu, Ni and Pb) content in two fish species of Persian Gulf in Bushehr Port, Iran" (Dobaradaran et al., 2013) [1]; "Comparative investigation of heavy metal, trace, and macro element contents in commercially valuable fish species harvested off from the Persian Gulf" (Abadi et al., 2015) [2]) as well as some other environmental pollutions, "Assessment of sediment quality based on acid-volatile sulfide and simultaneously extracted metals in heavily industrialized area of Asaluyeh, Persian Gulf: concentrations, spatial distributions, and sediment bioavailability/toxicity" (Arfaeinia et al., 2016) [3]. The concentration levels of heavy metals and anions in herbal distillates samples were determined using flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS, Varian AA240, Australia) and a spectrophotometer (M501 Single Beam Scanning UV/VIS, UK) respectively.

Keywords: Daily intake; Heavy metals; Herbal distillates; Selected anions.