The retail market for fresh cassava root tubers in the European Union (EU): The case of Copenhagen, Denmark - a chemical food safety issue?

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 252-256

  Kolind Hansen, Lotte ^a   Brimer, Leon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cassava; Chemical food safety; Cyanogenic glycosides; Europe; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSIDE; LINAMARIN; NITRILE;

AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CASSAVA; CHEMISTRY; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; DENMARK; ECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPEAN UNION; HUMAN; MIDDLE EAST; PLANT ROOT; SAFETY; MANIHOT; PRODUCT SAFETY; TOXICITY;

AFGHANISTAN; COMMERCE; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; DENMARK; EUROPEAN UNION; GLUCOSIDES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MANIHOT; MIDDLE EAST; NITRILES; PLANT ROOTS;

MANIHOT ESCULENTA;

EID: 70849134949     PISSN: 00225142     EISSN: 10970010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.3804     Document Type: Article

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