Detection of Warfare Agents in Liquid Foods Using the Brine Shrimp Lethality Assay

Journal of Food Science

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Lumor, Stephen E ^a   Diez Gonzalez, Francisco ^a   Labuza, Theodore P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brine shrimp lethality assay; Mortality; Pesticides; Toxins; Warfare agents

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENT; CYANIDE; PESTICIDE; T 2 TOXIN; TRIMETHYLSILYL CYANIDE; TRIMETHYLSILYL DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL; ARTEMIA; ARTICLE; BEVERAGE; BIOASSAY; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE AGENT; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD CONTROL; FRUIT; LARVA; LD 50; LIMIT OF DETECTION; METHODOLOGY; MILK; OSMOLARITY; SWEET ORANGE; TIME;

ANIMALS; ARTEMIA; BEVERAGES; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE AGENTS; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; CITRUS SINENSIS; CYANIDES; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INSPECTION; FRUIT; LARVA; LETHAL DOSE 50; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MILK; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PESTICIDES; T-2 TOXIN; TIME FACTORS; TRIMETHYLSILYL COMPOUNDS;

ARTEMIA; RATTUS;

EID: 78651462598     PISSN: 00221147     EISSN: 17503841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-3841.2010.01966.x     Document Type: Article

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