Nitrites, nitrates and N-nitrosoamines in Estonian cured meat products: Intake by Estonian children and adolescents

Food Additives and Contaminants

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1098-1105

  Reinik, Mari ^a   Tamme, T ^b   Roasto, M ^b   Juhkam, K ^b   Jurtsenko S ^a   Tenno T ^c   Kiis, A ^b  

^a Tartu Laboratory   (Estonia)

^b ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Intake; Meat products; Nitrate; Nitrite; Nitrosoamines

Indexed keywords

1 NITROSOPIPERIDINE; DIBUTYLNITROSAMINE; DIETHYLNITROSAMINE; DIMETHYLNITROSAMINE; N NITROSOPYRROLIDINE; NITRATE; NITRITE; NITROSAMINE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHILD; ESTONIA; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD SAFETY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXICITY TESTING;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIET; ESTONIA; FOOD ADDITIVES; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INFANT; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; MEAT PRODUCTS; NITRATES; NITRITES; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; NITROSAMINES;

EID: 31644450416     PISSN: 0265203X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02652030500241827     Document Type: Article

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