Abstract
The rate of heavy metal pollution of some minor fruit samples growing at the roadsides in Turkey were determined by Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometry (ICP-AES). Pb, Zn and Cu were found at the high levels in the fruit samples. The results showed that the average level of Cu changed between 0.27mg/kg (Sample 11) and 0.05mg/kg (Sample 15), Cr 0.32mg/kg (Sample 14) and 0.18mg/kg (Sample13), Ni 0.68mg/kg (Sample 12) and 0.26mg/kg (Sample 15), Pb 2.86mg/kg (Sample 12) and 1.54mg/kg (Sample 4) and Se 12.96mg/kg (Sample 14) and 5.42mg/kg (Sample 7).
The levels of Cu, Cd and Cr in samples do not appear to reach pollution levels.