The elemental concentration of K, Fe, Cu, Mn, Zn, Pb, Cd, Ni, Sn, Br, Sr, Ti, Rb, As, Th, an U in eleven wild growing mushroom species collected from various regions of Turkey were determined by using non-destructive nuclear analytical techniques like tube-excited energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence and gamma ray spectroscopic measurements. The highest element concentrations for K, Fe, Cu, Mn, Zn, Pb, Cd, Ni, Sn, Br, Sr, Ti, Rb, As, Th, and U were 50977 ± 3982, 2971 ± 749, 99.1 ± 5.5, 71.3 ± 49.1, 266 ± 109, 5.6 ± 0.1, 3.08 ± 0.91, 3.6 ± 0.7, 1.6 ± 0.1, 27.2 ± 19.7, 19.9 ± 2.1, 602. ± 166, 72.4 ± 24.5, 3.7 ± 0.7, 1.8 ± 0.9 and 0.42 ± 0.13 mg/kg dry mass, respectively. Copyright © 2010 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. |