Review: Putative mutagens and carcinogens in foods. I. Nitrate/nitrite ingestion and gastric cancer mortality

Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1983, Pages 111-121

  Hartman, Philip E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ascorbate, vitamin C; cured meats; foods; gastric cancer; plant breeding; review, nitrites; United States; vegetables

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; FOOD ADDITIVE; NITRATE; NITRITE; NITROSAMINE;

CARCINOGENESIS; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; CHEMICAL MUTAGENESIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETIOLOGY; FOOD; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MEAT; MORTALITY; MUTAGENESIS; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; REVIEW; STOMACH; STOMACH CANCER; UNITED STATES; VEGETABLE;

ANIMAL; ASCORBIC ACID; CARCINOGENS; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD PRESERVATIVES; HUMAN; NITRATES; NITRITES; NITROSAMINES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 0020597866     PISSN: 01922521     EISSN: 1930238X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/em.2860050112     Document Type: Review

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