Relative hopane content confirming the mineral origin of hydrocarbons contaminating foods and human milk

Food Additives and Contaminants

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 893-904

  Populin, T ^a   Biedermann, M ^a   Grob, Konrad ^a   Moret, S ^b   Conte, L ^b  

^a Official Food Control Authority of the Canton of Zurich   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hopanes in foods and human milk; Mineral oil contamination of foods and human milk; Relative hopane content (RHC); Unresolved complex mixture (UCM) of paraffins

Indexed keywords

HOPANOID; HYDROCARBON; LUBRICATING AGENT; MINERAL OIL; PARAFFIN; PETROLATUM; TRITERPENOID; VEGETABLE OIL;

CLAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD FREEZING; FOOD PACKAGING; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MILK; MUSSEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BIVALVIA; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS; MILK, HUMAN; MINERAL OIL; MINERALS; PARAFFIN; PLANT OILS; SCLEROSING SOLUTIONS; TRITERPENES;

BIVALVIA;

EID: 8544247221     PISSN: 0265203X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02652030400001164     Document Type: Review

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