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Food and Nutrition Sciences, 2011, 2, 1160-1165 doi:10.4236/fns.2011.210155 Published Online December 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/fns) Determination of Essential Toxic Metals and Its Transversal Pattern from Soil to Tea Brew Piar Chand, Ruchi Sharma, Ramdeen Prasad, Rakesh Kumar Sud, Yogesh B. Pakade Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Palampur, India. Email: yogesh_pakade@ th th st Received June 14 , 2011; revised September 13 , 2011; accepted September 21 , 2011. ABSTRACT The soil pH of tea garden was acidic (4.6 - 5.3) with organic contents ranging between 0.91% - 1.09%. Available po- tassium concentration was predominantly found in the range of 167 - 208 mg/kg followed by the nitrogen (150 - 189 mg/ha) and phosphorus (42 - 169 mg/kg). The Fe content was the one of the predominant heavy metal in soil (5494 - 5627 mg/kg) followed by Mn (245 - 435 mg/kg), Zn (30 - 111 mg/kg) and Cu (22 - 51 mg/kg). The concentration of toxic heavy metals Pb, Ni, and Cd in tea leaves, made tea and its infusions were too low. The level of most abundant essential heavy metals in tea infusion was Zn ranging from 0.09 - 0.52 mg/kg followed by Mn 0.10 - 0.42 mg/kg. The level of Fe and Cu was ranging from 0.068 - 0.073 mg/kg and 0.007 - 0.04 mg/kg in tea infusion respectively. The levels of all es- sential and the toxic metals were compared well with the other parts of the world. Keywords : Tea, Heavy Metals, Physico-Chemical, Soil, Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (AAS) 1. Introduction search finding indicated the positive and negative effect of drinking tea on the health [13]. It was pointed out that Tea (Camellia sinensis L.) is a perennial shrub, which is some of