VOLATILE HALOGENATED HYDROCARBONS IN FOODS

Citation
M. Miyahara et al., VOLATILE HALOGENATED HYDROCARBONS IN FOODS, Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, 43(2), 1995, pp. 320-326
Citations number
27
Categorie Soggetti
Food Science & Tenology",Agriculture,"Chemistry Applied
ISSN journal
00218561
Volume
43
Issue
2
Year of publication
1995
Pages
320 - 326
Database
ISI
SICI code
0021-8561(1995)43:2<320:VHHIF>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
Volatile halogenated organic compounds were determined in foods. Stati stical treatment of the data for 13 foods sampled from 20 families liv ing in suburban Tokyo (Saitama prefecture) indicated that the foods we re contaminated by water pollution and/or substances introduced by the process of food production. Butter and margarine were contaminated by chlorinated ethylene, ethane, and related compounds released by dry c leaning and other operations. Soybean sprouts and tofu (soybean curd) contained chloroform and related trihalomethanes absorbed during the p roduction process.