Transliteration from Arabic to English usually results in several different versions for the same Arabic name causing some names to have more than 40 different versions.
Because of the industrial development in Libya and the establishment of many industrial complexes near the cities and high population residential areas, as well as using pesticides and fertilizers in agriculture which may lead to an environmental contamination with some heavy metals especially Lead and Cadmium that may transfer to the animals through feed and water then into their milk, and because of the lack of local studies about the levels of these two elements in raw milk, this study was undertaken to estimate Lead and Cadmium levels in samples of raw milk produced in some western region of Libya, and to recognize the extent of contamination with these two elements.