Bioavailability of heavy metals in soil of the Tieguanyin tea garden, southeastern China

The bioavailability of 22 heavy metals was investigated at 19 sampling sites in Tieguanyin tea garden in Anxi County,Fujian Province,southeastern China.Heavy metal concentrations were determined by inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry(ICP-MS)and evaluated by geo-accumulation index(I_(geo)).Dilute nitric acid extraction was used to evaluate biological activity.Cu,Pb,and Cd were highly bioavailable and most easily absorbed by tea trees.Heavy metal bioavailability in the surface soil was as the ratio of the effective state to the total amount.Cd had the highest I_(geo)values,and the respective samples and sites were classified as moderately/strongly contaminated.Cd element is considered the main factor of heavy metal pollution in the tea garden in Anxi.The other heavy metals studied were present in lower concentrations;thus,the samples were classified as uncontaminated or slightly contaminated.

Universal probe with oriented antibody to improve the immunochromatographic assay of lead ions in Procambarus clarkii

Objectives:Based on the information from the random inspection of foods by the China Food and Drug Administration in 2022,the contamin-ation levels of lead ions are high in many edible products.Traditional methods of detecting lead ions cannot meet the requirements of on-site analysis of food due to the need for large equipment.The immunochromatographic assay(iCA)is an effective,rapid,on-site analytical technique for determining lead ions in foods.However,the performance of ICA based on the traditional probe(AuNP-mAb)is limited by ignoring the influ-ence of theantibody orientation.Materials and Methods:In this study,we developed an efficient technology for constructing a universal probe(AuNP-PrA-mAb)based on the oriented immobilization of antibody.The performance of ICA was largely improved due to specific binding of the Fc region of the antibody with recombinant protein A(PrA)on the surface of a gold nanoparticle(AuNP).The ICA based on a universal probe was applied for the qualitative and quantitative detection of lead ions in Procambarus clarki within 30 min.Meanwhile,a simple and fast pretreatment method based on dilute acid extraction was developed forpretreating thePclarkii containing leadions.Results:The visual limit of detection and the scanning limit of quantization of the developed iCA strip for lead ions were O.5 ng/mL and 0.28 ng/mL,respectively.The sensitivity of ICA based on universal probe was 10-fold higher than that of the ICA using traditional probe.Furthermore,the detection results had no obvious difference between the ICA and ICP-MS with t-test statistical method.Conclusions:The developed ICA based on a universal probe presented broad application prospects in detecting contaminants in foods.