Food contaminants

With the increasing use of a large variety of chemicals, opportunities for contamination of food are becoming greater. Food may be involved following some accidental occurrence or from more general environmental contamination. Three examples are given: an outbreak of paralysis in Morocco involved 10...

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Published in:Postgraduate medical journal 1974-10, Vol.50 (588), p.625-628
Main Author: Kazantzis, G.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Animals
Association for the Study of Infectious Disease
Child
Environmental Pollutants - analysis
Food Contamination - analysis
Food Handling
Food-Processing Industry
Foodborne Diseases - etiology
Humans
Mice
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Summary:With the increasing use of a large variety of chemicals, opportunities for contamination of food are becoming greater. Food may be involved following some accidental occurrence or from more general environmental contamination. Three examples are given: an outbreak of paralysis in Morocco involved 10,000 people who had ingested food adulterated with triorthocresyl phosphate; an epidemic of jaundice in London followed the contamination of flour with an epoxy resin hardener; organic mercury poisoning in an Arab country involved more than 6000 people who had eaten bread made from grain treated with a methyl mercury fungicide. The hazard which may arise from heavy metal accumulation in the body is discussed.
ISSN:0032-5473
1469-0756
DOI:10.1136/pgmj.50.588.625