Article
Occurrence of mutagens in canned foods.
Mutation research - 1 Jan 2000
Krone C A, Iwaoka W T
Abstract excerpt
Mutagens are shown to be present in a variety of commercially heat-processed foods. Since these substances are not present in the unheated raw material, it appears that they are produced during processing. Canned salmon and beef broth showed the highest mutagenicity while other canned beef and fish products yielded lower but detectable levels. These findings are significant not only because of the large...
Topics
- Animals
- Cattle
- Fishes
- Food Analysis
- Food Handling
- Humans
- Meat
- Mutagenicity Tests
- Mutagens
- Mutation
- Poultry
- Salmonella typhimurium