INFLUENCE OF FOOD CHEMICAL POLLUTION ON HEALTH OF POPULATION OF YAMAL-NENETS AUTONOMOUS AREA

Population health is determined by the compound action of a diversity of medico-social factors. With the application of a risk assessment methodology in this work, influence of food on health of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area’s (YNAA) population was evaluated in 2006-2008 taking into account negative effects of chemical substances contained in the food. The risk level concerning non-carcinogenic effects caused by the exposure to such substances was unacceptably high. The aggregate hazard indices (for critical target organs) calculated on the basis of the median and the 90th percentile were larger than 1. The YNAA population has a high risk of exposure to such pathological non-carcinogenic effects in consumption of vegetables and fruits, berries, juices, bread and bakery foods, sugar and confectionery, meat and meat products. “Target organs (systems)” were blood, the gastrointestinal tract, the immune, hormone- and cardiovascular systems. Basic substances which influenced negatively human health were arsenic, T2-toxin and nitrates. The risk level of cancer development was also characterized as unacceptable for the population. Most of the carcinogens entered the organism with such products as vegetables, fruits, berries and juices, fish and sea foods. The greatest contribution to the aggregate carcinogenic risk was made by arsenic, which was mainly contained in the group “fish and sea foods”.

Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area (YNAA), non-carcinogenic risk, carcinogenic risk, food