The importance of nuclear analytical techniques in the determination of mineral micronutrients in Iranian daily diets

This article explains the application of a few nuclear and non nuclear analytical techniques to determine a number of toxic and essential trace elements in human daily intakes. The diets are the food patterns of different population of Iranian provinces with different food habits. In this article a comparison has been made for mineral micronutrient intaken by the different population via the pattern of nutrients in their daily diets. In the meantime resulting outcome from different analytical techniques including instrumental and radiochemical neutron activation analysis have been compared and discussed.