 Spectrophotometry was used to measure TAS RANDOX Laboratories, Crumlin, Antrim, UK on Statfax 1904Plus Awareness Technology, Palm City, FL and TBARS according to the Okhawa method 11 Sigma reagents, Germany on Specord M40 Carl-Zeiss, Germany. The intra- and inter-assay coefficients of variation were as follows: TAS 1.6 and 3.7, and TBARS 1.9 and 3.8 