Mikroelementozy yavlyayutsya vazhnoy problemoy sovremennogo obshchestva. Dlya ikh vyyavleniya provodyatsya raznoplanovye skriningovye issledovaniya, odnako daleko ne vse territorii Rossiyskoy Federatsii i sloi naseleniya okhvacheny. Aktual'nost' rabot obuslovlena biologicheskoy znachimost'yu mikroelementov, vliyaniem na demograficheskie pokazateli. V knige udeleno osoboe vnimanie tsinku. On yavlyaetsya kofaktorom bol'shoy gruppy (bolee 200) fermentov, uchastvuyushchikh v belkovom, uglevodnom, zhirovom i drugikh vidakh obmena, neobkhodim dlya normal'nogo protekaniya biokhimicheskikh protsessov i, sledovatel'no, dlya zhiznedeyatel'nosti v tselom. Kniga soderzhit informatsiyu o referentnykh urovnyakh tsinka v zhidkostyakh i tkanyakh organizma cheloveka, o tsinksoderzhashchey pishche i biodobavkakh, dana informatsiya o novykh vozmozhnostyakh obogashcheniya pishchevykh produktov. Sotrudniki kafedry obshchey i bioorganicheskoy khimii Kurskogo GMU na protyazhenii mnogikh let sobirayut i sistematiziruyut material po biologicheskoy roli khimicheskikh elementov, provodyat sobstvennye issledovaniya v oblasti analiticheskoy khimii. Material etoy knigi mozhet byt' ispol'zovan v uchebnykh i nauchnykh tselyakh.