Aflatoxin levels and exposure assessment of spanish infant cereals

Food Additives and Contaminants: Part B Surveillance

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 275-288

  Hernández Martínez, Raquel ^a   Navarro Blasco, Iñigo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aflatoxins; Baby food; Cereals; Mycotoxins

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; BABY FOODS; BODY WEIGHT; CARCINOGENIC AGENTS; CELL SYSTEM; CEREALS; CONCENTRATION LEVELS; DERIVATISATION; DETECTION LIMITS; EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; EXTRACTION PROCEDURE; FLUORESCENCE DETECTION; FOOD INTAKE; GLUTEN-FREE; HUMAN EXPOSURES; INFANT FOOD; INTERMEDIATE LEVEL; MYCOTOXINS; POST-COLUMN; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; ROUTINE MONITORING; TOTAL AFLATOXINS;

BEVERAGES; HEALTH HAZARDS; MANUFACTURE;

AFLATOXINS;

THEOBROMA CACAO;

AFLATOXIN; AFLATOXIN B1; AFLATOXIN B2; AFLATOXIN G1; AFLATOXIN G2;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ANALYSIS; BABY FOOD; CACAO; CEREAL; CHEMISTRY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFANT; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; SPAIN;

AFLATOXIN B1; AFLATOXINS; CACAO; CEREALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FOOD; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; SPAIN;

EID: 78649589104     PISSN: 19393210     EISSN: 19393229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19393210.2010.531402     Document Type: Article

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