Trace elements and heavy metals in healthy camel blood of United Arab Emirates

In the present paper, 240 camels were sampled for the determination of trace elements and different heavy metals. The variation factors included age, sex and physiological status which were assessed for some parameters. On the average, the mineral contents were 190.3 mu g/100ml (iron), 60.1 mu g/100ml (copper), 44.0 mu g/100ml (strontium), 22.5 mu g/100ml (arsenic), 20.0 mu g/100ml (zinc), 19.7 mu g/100ml (selenium), 19.3 mu g/100ml (boron) and 14.6 mu g/100ml (barium). Other minerals like aluminium (3.7 mu g/100ml), molybdenum (2.9 mu g/100ml), chromium (2.0 mu g/100 ml), nickel (1.8 mu g/100ml), lead (1.5 mu g/100ml), manganese (0.16 mu g/100ml), cobalt (0.08 mu g/100ml) and cadmium (0.07 mu g/100ml) were in very small concentration.