1. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in smoked food products and commerical liquid smoke flavourings
- Author
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Enayat A. Gomaa, Gray Ji, Rabie S, Clemente J. Lopez-Bote, and Alden M. Booren
- Subjects
Meat ,food.ingredient ,Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis ,Food Contamination ,Toxicology ,Poultry ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Liquid smoke ,food ,Smoke ,polycyclic compounds ,Animals ,Polycyclic Compounds ,Cooking ,Food science ,Fluoranthene ,Anthracene ,biology ,Fishes ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,food and beverages ,General Chemistry ,Fish products ,biology.organism_classification ,food.food ,Flavoring Agents ,Smoked salmon ,Smoked fish ,Trout ,chemistry ,Chemistry (miscellaneous) ,Environmental chemistry ,Pyrene ,Food Science - Abstract
Smoked foods including turkey, pork, chicken, beef and fish products were screened for the presence of carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Eighteen commercial liquid smoke flavourings and seasonings were also analysed. Total PAH concentrations in smoked meat products ranged from 2.6 micrograms/kg in a cooked ham sample to 29.8 micrograms/kg in grilled pork chops, while those in fish products ranged from 9.3 micrograms/kg in smoked shrimp to 86.6 micrograms/kg in smoked salmon. Total concentrations of the carcinogenic PAHs (benzo[a]anthracene, benzo[b]fluoranthene, benzo[a]pyrene, dibenzo[a,h]anthracene, and indeno[1,2,3-c,d]pyrene) ranged from non-detectable in several meat products to 7.4 micrograms/kg in grilled pork chops, and from 0.2 micrograms/kg in trout to 16.0 micrograms/kg in salmon. In liquid smoke flavourings and seasonings, total PAH concentrations ranged from 6.3 to 43.7 micrograms/kg, with the carcinogenic PAHs ranging from 0.3 to 10.2 micrograms/kg.
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- 1993