Concentration of elements in diets from a mining area

This data was collected in a toxicovigilance effort to enable the baselining of exposures, risks and nutritional adequacy of elements in diets from the Western regions of Ghana, where gold mining prevalent. The data shows the communities and diet groups for antimony, arsenic, barium, cadmium, cobalt, lead, manganese, mercury, molybdenum, silver, strontium, tin, tungsten, uranium, vanadium, zirconium, calcium, copper, iron, potassium, selenium and zinc. The elemental concentrations in mg/kg were determined using XRF analyzer (Niton XL 3T 900 Model, Thermo Scientific, UK) after the diets were freeze dried.