Study of some heavy metals in honey produced in Chahar-mahale-Bakhtiary province

Honey is the nectar of living flowers which produced by honey bees (Apis mellifera). Honey could be used as an environmental pollution indicator and because of developing and industrialization of cities, levels of three metal elements were investigated in five regions of Chahar-mahale-Bakhtiary Province.
The amounts of Cadmium, Lead and Mercury for 75 honey samples were analyzed by potentiometric analyses. According to the results, mercury was not detected in all samples. Cadmium level was determined significantly higher (P