Safety Study of Milled Beef and Slices Beef Jerky Viewed from Cadmium and Plumbum Heavy Metals Contamination

Heavy metals Plumbum (Pb) and Cadmium (Cd) are chemical contamination that may contaminate during pre-harvest, processing as well as the contribution of environmental factors. The results showed an average content of Pb highest milled beef jerky products from trader C is 2.0177 ppm, while the highest Pb content of beef jerky slices of trader B 2.6680 ppm. The highest average cadmium content of beef jerky products milled from 4 traders coming from trader D is 0.8841 ppm, while the highest Cd content of beef jerky slices of trader B 0.3101 ppm.