TITLE:
Scientific data on selenium status in Turkey
AUTHORS:
Filiz Karadas
KEYWORDS:
Se; Distribution; Soil; Food; Feed
JOURNAL NAME:
Agricultural Sciences,
Vol.5 No.2,
January
27,
2014
ABSTRACT: This review provides a summary of
the available scientific data on selenium status in Turkey. The first reports regarding
selenium status in Turkey appeared in the 1990s. Since then, much attention has been paid to selenium content in soil, cereal crops and a variety of other
foodstuffs including corn, garlic, mushrooms, fresh and canned fish, meat and meat
products, milk and dairy products, spice and condiment plants and honey. Previous
reports by Foster and Summer (1997), Aras et al. (2001) and H?ncal (2007) reported daily selenium intake in Turkey
to be 30 μg/day, 20-53 μg/day and 30-40 μg/day, respectively. However, these
reports are based on limited local data and cannot be generalized for the entire
country. As a result, there is still a need for further research in all seven regions
and 81 provinces of the country to measure selenium content of soil, food, water
and animal feed in order to determine the average daily selenium intake of animals
and humans in Turkey.