Detailed exposure assessment of dietary furan for infants consuming commercially jarred complementary food based on data from the DONALD study

Maternal and Child Nutrition

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 390-403

  Lachenmeier, Dirk W ^a   Maser, Elena ^a   Kuballa, Thomas ^a   Reusch, Helmut ^a   Kersting, Mathilde ^b   Alexy, Ute ^b  

^a Chemisches und Veterinaruntersuchungsamt CVUA Karlsruhe   (Germany)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHILD NUTRITION   (Germany)

Author keywords

Baby food; Food contamination; Furan; Infant nutrition; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

ACRYLAMIDE; FURAN;

ARTICLE; BABY FOOD; BEVERAGE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DIETARY INTAKE; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

BODY WEIGHT; CARCINOGENS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD PRESERVATION; FOOD, PRESERVED; FURANS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FOOD; RISK ASSESSMENT;

RATTUS;

EID: 84857378946     PISSN: 17408695     EISSN: 17408709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8709.2010.00288.x     Document Type: Article

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