TY - BOOK AU - Salma Amr Mohamed. 153551 AU - Mona Khorshed. TI - Health risk assessment of heavy metals via consumption of contaminated Herbal medicine collected from local Egyptian pharmacies تقييم المعادن الثقيلة عن طريق استهالك األدوية العشبية الملوثة المجمعة من الصيدليات المصرية المحلية \\GP\\ DR. Amr Ageez (spring 2018 )\ PY - 2018/// CY - Giza PB - MSA KW - Biotechnology KW - heavy metals. N2 - Medicinal plants have a long history of use in therapy throughout the world and still make an important part of traditional medicine. Thus, medicinal plants and herbal products must be safe for the patient (consumer). However, owing to the nature and sources of herbal medicines, they are sometimes contaminated with toxic heavy metals such as lead, arsenic, mercury and cadmium thus poses a potential health threat to consumers. Thus, the aim of this study is to assess the levels of heavy metal contamination in some frequently used Egyptian medicinal plants and its health risks by the amount of heavy metals: Chromium (Cr), Cobalt (Co), Copper (Cu), Iron (Fe), Manganese (Mn), Nickel (Ni), Zinc (Zn), Tin (Sn), Cadmium (Cd), Lead (Pb), and Antimony (Sb) that they contain. The results showed that the elements that were found in 100% of the samples analyzed were Iron (Fe) and Manganese (Mn). Iron (Fe) has the highest mean concentration in all the samples with the highest being; 42.1123 mg/kg for drugs used for constipation and digestion for children <1 year UR - https://drive.google.com/file/d/18jWiS3djk_0Ld0OcnQGkAplOsE7uDwA1/view?usp=sharing ER -