Pyrrolizidine alkaloids in floral honeys of tropical Ghana: a health risk assessment

Food Additives and Contaminants: Part B Surveillance

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 300-310

  Letsyo, Emmanuel ^a   Jerz, Gerold ^a   Winterhalter, Peter ^a   Dübecke, Arne ^b   von der Ohe, Werner ^c   von der Ohe, Katharina ^c   Beuerle, Till ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b Quality Services International GmbH   (Germany)

^c Institut für Bienenkunde   (Germany)

Author keywords

Africa; agro ecological zones; Chromolaena odorata; food safety; Ghana; health risk; HPLC ESI MS MS; Pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs); tropical honey

Indexed keywords

ALKALOIDS; ECOLOGY; ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; FOOD PRODUCTS; FOOD SAFETY; HEALTH; HEALTH RISKS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLITES; TROPICS;

AFRICA; AGRO-ECOLOGICAL ZONES; CHROMOLAENA ODORATA; GHANA; HPLC-ESI-MS/MS; PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOID; TROPICAL HONEY;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOID;

ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BEE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GHANA; HONEY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ANIMALS; BEES; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GHANA; HONEY; PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOIDS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 85024403793     PISSN: 19393210     EISSN: 19393229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19393210.2017.1354336     Document Type: Article

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