Update of the toxicological assessment of furanocoumarins in foodstuffs (Update of the SKLM statement of 23/24 September 2004) - Opinion of the Senate Commission on Food Safety (SKLM) of the German Research Foundation (DFG)

Molecular Nutrition and Food Research

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 807-810

  Guth, Sabine ^a   Habermeyer, Michael ^a   Schrenk, Dieter ^a   Eisenbrand, Gerhard ^a  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Exposure; Flavoured food; Foodstuff; Furanocoumarins; Toxicological assessment

Indexed keywords

PSORALEN DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BEVERAGE; FOOD SAFETY; GERMANY; HUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT;

BEVERAGES; FOOD SAFETY; GERMANY; HUMANS; PSORALENS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CITRUS;

EID: 79955618022     PISSN: 16134125     EISSN: 16134133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mnfr.201100011     Document Type: Article

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