Fruits and Contaminants

Format	Author(s)	Title / Description	Date added	Details
	Reproductive and Cancer Hazard Assessment Section, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, California Environmental Protection Agency	Characterization of Acrylamide Intake from Certain Foods Analysis of acrylamide intake from various food types, based on FDA data on acrylamide levels in foods and USDA food consumption data. Includes as an appendix "FDA data on acrylamide concentration in foods". (more) Publication Month: March 2005	May 17, 2005
	United Kingdom Food Standards Agency	Dioxins and Dioxin-like PCBs in Foods - EU Monitoring 2005 Survey assessing levels of dioxins and PCBs in 142 retail samples of meat, eggs, dairy, fats and oils, seafood, fruit, vegetables, and bread/cereal products in the UK. (more) Deadline: Friday, June 23, 2006 Publication Date: Wednesday, July 26, 2006	Jul 27, 2006
	Office of Plant and Dairy Foods, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration	Exploratory Data on Furan in Food Exploratory data from FDA's survey of furan levels in food samples. Product categories sampled include baby foods, infant formulas, coffee, mixtures, fish, canned fruit, fruit juices, and vegetables, bread, meats, nuts and nut butters, and more. (more) Publication Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2005	May 10, 2004
	Buzby, Jean C. (Ed.)	International Trade and Food Safety: Economic Theory and Case Studies Report on the relationships between food safety regulation and international trade. Food safety and trade issues for meat and poultry products, produce, and seafood are discussed, as are these issues as related to hazards such as mycotoxins and dioxins. Attachments include "Belgian-Luxembourg exports, 1989-1999" and "Belgium-Luxembourg monthly production indices of key agricultrual products, 1998-99". Highlights of this report are provided in Agriculture Information Bulletin No. (AIB789), Food Safety and International Trade - Research Briefs, available from ERS. (more) Publication Month: November 2003	Nov 12, 2003
	Takatsuki, S.; Nemoto, S.; Sasaki, K.; Maitani, T.	[Production of Acrylamide in Agricultural Products by Cooking] Abstract of a study in which several food products were cooked over different periods of time, at different temperatures, and using different methods to study the formation of acrylamide. The original article is in Japanese. (more) Publication Month: February 2004	Jun 8, 2004
	Office of Plant and Dairy Foods, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration	Rapid Determination of Perchlorate Anion in Foods by Ion Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry: Revision 2: April 12, 2005 Description of an analytical method for the determination of perchlorate in fruits, vegetables, milk, low moisture foods, infant foods, and water. (more) Publication Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2005	Aug 20, 2004
	Doyle, M. Ellin	Reported Free Asparagine Levels in Foods Table of free asparagine levels in foods as reported in papers listed in the Food Science & Technology Abstracts database from 1968-October 2002. Data is provided for potatoes, grains, fruits and juices, vegetables and other plants, and other foods. (more) Publication Month: November 2002	May 7, 2003

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