Grazing lambs on pastures regrown after wildfires did not significantly alter metal content in meat and wool

Wildfires can drastically change rangeland by depositing ash contaminated with metals that are not part of normal diets. This pose health threats to humans and animals. risk, along alterations essential minerals in livestock grazing on regrowth burnt lands, is well known. To better understand this, our study investigated metal concentrations water, soil, plant forage, meat wool sheep the burned lands. We compared grazed stored samples from a year prior wildfire. Lead, mercury, arsenic, molybdenum, cadmium, beryllium, cobalt nickel were detected above reporting limits meat, or water samples. Contamination chromium thallium was three 26 regrowth. These 22 before. Copper found animals lower than unburned pastures; it important monitor copper avoid diseases associated deficiency.