Download or read book Report on the Review of Nitrites and Nitrates in Cured Meats and Cheese written by Great Britain. Food Additives and Contaminants Committee and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Review of Nitrites and Nitrates in Cured Meats and Cheese written by Great Britain. Food Additives and Contaminants Committee and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nitrates and Nitrites in Food and Water written by Michael J Hill and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1996-07-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Introduction With regard to nitrate and nitrite, the perceived hazards are to the ecological balance in rivers and lakes, and to human health. Increased nitrate levels in river water lead to increased growth of algae and consequent decrease in the level of biologically available oxygen (BAO). In extreme forms, the algae form unsightly blooms on the water surface, and the BAO level falls below that necessary to support fish and other animal life. At this extreme, there is little dispute that efforts should be made to restore the ecological balance, and this is best achieved by reversing the increase in nitrate concentration that caused the problem. The health hazards are less clear, but include the risk of methaemoglobinaemia in young infants and the possible risk of gastric cancer, particularly in certain high-risk patient groups. These health risks have led to legislation to control the exposure of humans to nitrate from drinking water and as a food additive . . . What can be done about this and how can the problem be solved (if, indeed, there is a problem)? It is normal practice to add nitrate and nitrite to food as a cosmetic and as a preservative. Is this necessary? If so, how much do we need to add? Are there alternatives? What effect does added nitrate have on total nitrate exposure of humans? . . . In this book, we have attempted to answer, or at least to give the background to, some of the questions. . . .
Download or read book Nitrite Curing of Meat written by Ronald B. Pegg and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-06-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meat has been treated for centuries with rock salt as a means of preservation. However, only one century has passed since the German researchers, Polenske in 1891, Kisshalt in 1899, and Lehmann in 1899, discovered that the active component in the curing process was nitrite. Soon after the role of nitrite as a meat curing agent was revealed, government regulators placed guidelines on the level of nitrite and nitrate permitted for use in cured meat formulations. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the development of the so-called "nitrite problem" surfaced because of the detection of N-nitrosamines in processed meats. The industry was in an uproar and the issue was of paramount interest to scientists and the public. A major technical advance in the analytical technique for N-nitrosamine detection was achieved when Thermo Electron of Waltham, Massachusetts introduced the thermal energy analyzer (TEA). This unit allowed the screening of a large number of samples for nitrosamine with only a minimum preparation. The role of nitrite in revealing the desired and unique flavor of cured products, perhaps by suppressing the formation of lipid oxidation products was another development in revealing other properties of nitrite. Above all, the antimicrobial role of nitrite, together with salt, had a major influence on the popularity of nitrite/nitrate in food preservation. This book provides a review of the desirable attributes which sodium nitrite confers to meat during processing, as well as drawbacks of nitrite usage, i.e., the presence of N-nitrosoamines. In addition, solutions for the curing of meat without the use of nitrite are presented. An examination of a multicomponent nitrite-free curing system entailing the color, flavor, and microbial protection of such a system is given.
Download or read book Report on the Review of the Preservatives in Food Regulations 1962 written by Great Britain. Food Additives and Contaminants Committee and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Antimicrobials in Food written by P. Michael Davidson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2005-04-28 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve years have passed since its last edition - making Antimicrobials in Foods, Third Edition the must-have resource for those interested in the latest information on food antimicrobials. During that time, complex issues regarding food preservation and safety have emerged. A dozen years ago, major outbreaks of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Listeri
Download or read book Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 1856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nitrates and Nitrites in Food and Water written by M J Hill and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nitrate and nitrite are potentially dangerous substances which can have a detrimental effect on the ecological balance of rivers and lakes, and can cause harm to human health. This book puts into context the magnitude and complexity of the problems caused by nitrate and nitrite, and provides advice and information on ways to combat it.
Download or read book Food Additives and Contaminants Committee Report on the Review of the Preservations in Food Regulations 1962 written by Great Britain. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nitrite in Bacon written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Meat Curing written by Quin Kolb and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Airports written by British Library and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-05-21 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Food Safety and Quality Nitrites written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Subcommittee on Agricultural Research and General Legislation and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Food and Health Science and Technology written by G. G. Birch and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Control and Standardisation of National Food Quality. There must be very many different opinions as to what this title means. To some people it will mean the control by legislation of additive and contaminant levels in food, to others it may mean the laying down of compositional standards for different food commodities, yet again some may consider that it covers the nutritional quality of the food and the maintenance of an adequate satisfactory diet for the population of the country. I think certainly that it could be all of these things and a glance at the variety of titles of papers which other speakers will be giving later in this symposium illustrates the very wide area which is covered by food quality in its many aspects. I will try only to present to you some of those aspects which are the concern of government in the control of food quality. I will not concern myself with those aspects which are the concern only of the manufacturer and his customer, and here I am thinking of flavour, appearance and physical state, such as whether canned, fresh or frozen. These aspects, which affect the type of products to be marketed, and also the aspects of quality control which set out to maintain the standard that the manufacturer has set himself, are I think outside my province.
Download or read book Special Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alternatives to the Current Use of Nitrite in Foods written by Assembly of Life Sciences (U.S.). Committee on Nitrite and Alternative Curing Agents in Food and published by National Academies. This book was released on 1982 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This first volume of a 2-volume report attempts to assess the health risks associated with overall exposure to nitrate, nitrite, and N-nitroso compounds, with emphasis on the risks from natural and supplemented nitrate and nitrite in foods and the use of nitrite as a food preservative. An evaluation was made of the toxicologic and carcinogenic significance of exposure to these chemical species and their potential health risks. A number of conclusions are developed from this evaluative report. These include: nitrate is neither carcinogenic nor mutagenic; nitrite is not a direct-acting carcinogen; most N-nitroso compounds are carcinogenic in laboratory animals, but the experimental data are of limited value in predicting their quantitative risk to humans; the nitrosation-inhibiting effects of ascorbate and other substances have been established; and, due to possible health risk in using nitrate as a curing agent, a search for alternatives should be continued. The use of nitrate and nitrite in foods and the chemistry of these materials are discussed. (wz).
Download or read book Government Publications written by Great Britain. Her Majesty's Stationery Office and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
