Determination of some minerals and heavy metal levels in Urfa cheese and cow's milk

This research was carried out to determine the levels of some minerals and heavy metals in Urfa cheeses cow's milk offered for sale Şanlıurfa. Mineral metal were determined by analysing 18 cheese 21 cow samples collected from retail outlets with ICP-MS. Mean mineral contents were; magnesium (Mg) 129.8 ±31.14 mg/kg, calcium (Ca) 2712.66 ±1002.4 potassium (K) 272.06 ±127.21 titanium (Ti) 7.48 ±2.63 zinc (Zn) 40.4 ±16.33 selenium (Se) 10.6 ±3.51 mg/kg. In samples, average 0.22 ±0.04 0.07 ±0.009, copper (Cu) 0.0068 ±0.01 mg/kg chromium (Cr) detected at level 0.019 ±0.001 Arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb) thallium (Tl) below detectable samples. As a result, it concluded that do not pose significant danger public health terms pollution can contribute significantly nutrition substances contains.