Cadmium in tissues of Japanese quail fed oat grain grown on municipal sludge-amended soil

Journal Article · Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1986 · J. Toxicol. Environ. Health; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/15287398609530871· OSTI ID:5201329

Bache, C A; Stoewsand, G S; Lisk, D J

Oats were cultured on soil amended with municipal sewage sludge from Syracuse, N.Y., or on soil alone (control). The oats were fed to male and female Japanese quail through four generations. The extent of absorption of cadmium by the oats and its deposition in tissues and eggs of the first and fourth generations of birds were determined. The tissue levels of cadmium found in the first (F0) generation were kidney greater than liver greater than muscle approximately equal to eggs, with the quail from the sludge-treatment group consistently showing the higher respective tissue levels. Female birds showed consistently higher tissue levels than those of the corresponding males. Kidney and liver tissues and eggs from the fourth generation (F3) quail fed the sludge-treatment diets were also higher than the corresponding controls, but tissues of the male quail were most often higher than the corresponding females.

• Research Organization: Cornell Univ., Ithaca
• OSTI ID: 5201329
• Journal Information: J. Toxicol. Environ. Health; (United States), Journal Name: J. Toxicol. Environ. Health; (United States) Vol. 2; ISSN JTEHD
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.
ANIMAL FEEDS
ANIMALS
BIRDS
CADMIUM
CEREALS
CONTAMINATION
DISTRIBUTION
ELEMENTS
FOOD
GRASS
METALS
OATS
PLANTS
PROGENY
SEWAGE
SEWAGE SLUDGE
SEX DEPENDENCE
SLUDGES
SOILS
TISSUE DISTRIBUTION
VERTEBRATES
WASTES