Coumarin and cinnamaldehyde in cinnamon marketed in Italy: A natural chemical hazard?

Food Additives and Contaminants - Part A

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1297-1305

  Lungarini, S ^a   Aureli, F ^a   Coni, E ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cinnamaldehyde; Cinnamon; Coumarin; High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Indexed keywords

CINNAMALDEHYDE; COUMARIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CINNAMON; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD SAFETY; HIGH PERFORMANCE THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; ITALY; MARKET; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENNA; TOXIN ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

CINNAMOMUM VERUM; MUS; RATTUS;

EID: 63349088629     PISSN: 19440049     EISSN: 14645122     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02652030802105274     Document Type: Article

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