ZINC IN HAIR OF THE MIDDLE POMERANIA HUMAN POPULATION (POLAND)

The aim of this work was the assessment of the age, sex, way of nutrition, environment and health state influence on zinc content in hair of population living in the Middle Pomerania. Within years of 2005.2007 hair coming from 416 persons from a ten months old child to a 75 years old person was analyzed. All people were divided into four age groups: children (0.15 years), youth (16.25), adults (26.50) and the elderly (51.75). 3.centimete rs long hair (counting from the skin) were put to chemical analyze. Then dried samples were weighed and mineralized with mixture of nitric and tetraoxochloric acides (mixed in proportion of 5:1). Zink determination was done by method of atomic absorption spectrophotometry using spectrometer ASA.3. Average zinc content in hair