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 inPostgraduate medical journal Vol. 50; no. 588; pp. 625 - 628
Main Author Kazantzis, G.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine 01.10.1974
Oxford University Press
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.
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ISSN:0032-5473
1469-0756
DOI:10.1136/pgmj.50.588.625