Grains and Grain Products and Exposure Assessment

Format	Author(s)	Title / Description	Date added	Details
	Verbraucher Zentrale Hamburg e.V.	Acrylamid This page on acrylamide includes tables that collect data on levels of acrylamide in foods from several sources. Foods with data include potato chips, other potato products, crackers, corn chips, breads, child and infant foods, baked goods, coffee, and more. In addition to the tables, information on acrylamide in foods is provided. (more)	Aug 27, 2004
	Bosnir, Jasna; Puntaric, Dinko; Zovko, Mira; Smit, Zdenko	Acrylamide as a Food Contaminant Abstract from ICTX 2004 regarding a study of acrylamide levels in bread, milk rolls, chips, and fried potatoes in the Republic of Croatia. Access may require subscription or purchase. (more) Publication Date: Tuesday, June 15, 2004	Nov 30, 2004
	Leung, K.S.; Lin, A.; Tsang, C.K.; Yeung, S.T.K.	Acrylamide in Asian Foods in Hong Kong Report of a study of acrylamide levels in Asian foods. The formation of acrylamide during deep-frying of a wheat flour-based Chinese fried fritter at various temperatures was also studied. Subscription or purchase is required to access the full text. (more) Publication Month: December 2003	Jan 21, 2004
	Murkovic, M.	Acrylamide in Austrian Foods Report of a study in which acrylamide levels were measured in Austrian foods, including potato crisps, cookies, crisp bread, breakfast cereals, popcorn and rice products, potato chips, and coffee. Access to the full text may require subscription or purchase. (more) Publication Date: Friday, October 29, 2004	Nov 30, 2004
	Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety, German Federal Ministry of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture	Acrylamide in Christmas Cakes This page presents results of assessment of acrylamide levels in gingerbread, gingerbread-like cakes, and thin almond biscuits over two time periods to examine the effects of minimisation measures for acrylamide in foods. (more)	Aug 17, 2004
	Becalski, Adam, Benjamin P.-Y. Lau, David Lewis, and Stephen W. Seaman	Acrylamide in Foods: Occurrence, Sources, and Modeling Report of a study that analyzed acrylamide levels in Canadian foods and modeled reactions for the formation of acrylamide. A subscription is required to access the article. (more) Publication Month: January 2003	Feb 12, 2003
	National Toxicology Program, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services	Aflatoxins This report discusses carcinogenicity, properties, use, production, exposure, and regulations of aflatoxins. Publication Month: December 2002	Aug 14, 2002
	European Commission	Annual EU-wide Pesticide Residues Monitoring Reports Reports and data from the European Union on exposure to pesticides through residues on plant products from 1996-2002. Includes pesticide levels found in relation to Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs), exposure assessment for acute risk from specific pesticides, evaluation of pesticide data by pesticide, commodity, and country, and more. (more)	Aug 13, 2002
	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
	Paleologos, E.K.; Kontominas, M.G.	Determination of Acrylamide and Methacrylamide by Normal Phase High Performance Liquid Chromatography and UV Detection Report on a method for the analysis of acrylamide and methacrylamide in foods that uses normal phase high performance liquid chromatography with UV detection. The method was used to analyze acrylamide levels in fried potatoes, baked potatoes, cookies, cocoa, and coffee. Access to the full text may require subscription or purchase. (more) Publication Date: Friday, June 10, 2005	Jun 1, 2005
	Yusa, V.; Quintas, G.; Pardo, O.; Marti, P.; Pastor, A.	Determination of Acrylamide in Foods by Pressurized Fluid Extraction and Liquid Chromatography-tandem Mass Spectrometry Used for a Survey of Spanish Cereal-based Foods Report on a rapid, automated method using pressurized fluid extraction to determine levels of acrylamide in different food products, including potato chips, biscuits, and breakfast cereals. Access to the full text may require subscription or purchase. (more) Deadline: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 Publication Month: March 2006	Mar 15, 2006
	Terada, H.; Tamura, Y.	[Determination of Acrylamide in Processed Foods by Column-switching HPLC with UV Detection] English-language abstract of this Japanese-language article on an analytical method for determining acrylamide levels in processed foods. Acrylamide levels in potato chips, fried potato, croquette, and instant noodles were analyzed. (more) Publication Month: December 2003	Mar 25, 2004
	Al-Dmoor	Determination of Acrylamide Levels in Selected Traditional Foodstuffs and Drinks in Jordan Report of a study on acrylamide levels in traditional foods in Jordan. Products tested include breads, boiled products, kobeht potatoes, shawarmah, coffee, cacao powder, and more. Access to the full text may require subscription or purchase. (more) Deadline: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 Publication Year: 2005	Sep 14, 2005
	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
	Binfield, Julian, et al.	FAPRI-Ireland 2002 EU Baseline Briefing Book Baseline agricultural projections for the EU. Includes discussion of policy assumptions, macroeconomic assumptions, world agricultural commodity prices, and EU projections for commodities. (more) Publication Month: May 2002	Jul 12, 2002
	German BgVV (Federal Institute for Health Protection of Consumers and Veterinary Medicine)	Forschung zu Acrylamid in Lebensmitteln in Deutschland: Bundesbehörden und Industrie (Stand September 2002) vom 27. September 2002 [in German] This paper discusses German federal activities and industry activities related to acrylamide in foods. Includes discussion of analytical methods, acrylamide levels in foods, acrylamide formation, acrylamide in grain products, potato products, and milk, toxicology, exposure, and minimizing acrylamide in foods. (more) Publication Date: Friday, September 27, 2002	Aug 12, 2004
	International Life Sciences Insitute	International Life Sciences Institute Crop Composition Database Database of standardized and compiled crop analyses from a number of different companies. Search criteria include crop type, tissue type, crop year, country, state, analyte category, analysis method, value range, fields to display, and analyte values to be displayed in fresh weight and dry weight. (more)	Jun 25, 2003
	Al-Dmoor; Humeid; Alawi	Investigation of Acrylamide Levels in Selected Fried and Baked Foods in Jordan Report of a study on acrylamide levels in baked and fried foodstuffs commonly consumed in Jordan and of the effects of different processing conditions on acrylamide levels. Access to the full text may require subscription or purchase. (more) Publication Year: 2004	Sep 28, 2004
	Ministerium für Ernährung und Ländlichen Raum Baden-Württemberg	Minister Willi Stächele: "Untersuchungsergebnisse zu Acrylamid erfordern weiteres Handeln": Lebensmittelüberwachung des Landes entwickelte Untersuchungsverfahren [in German] Release regarding initial results from testing of acrylamide levels in foods. Publication Date: Friday, July 5, 2002	Aug 12, 2004
	Scientific Panel on Food Additives, Flavourings, Processing Aids and Materials in Contact with Food, European Food Safety Authority	Opinion of the AFC Panel Related to Semicarbazide in Food Opinion adopted on June 21, 2005 regarding analytical aspects, mechanisms of formation, occurrence and exposure, and toxicity of semicarbazide in foods. Includes as an annex "The EFSA advice on baby foods from October 2003". (more) Publication Date: Thursday, June 30, 2005	Jul 6, 2005
	Scientific Panel on Contaminants on the Food Chain, European Food Safety Authority	Opinion of the CONTAM Panel Related to Ochratoxin A in Food Opinion adopted on April 4, 2006 resulting from a risk assessment of the mycotoxin Ochratoxin A (OTA) in food commodities such as cereals, pulses, coffee, beer, grape juice, wine, cacao products, nuts, and spices. Reports findings on the toxicity of OTA, including renal toxicity, neurotoxicity, immunotoxicity, reproductive toxicity, and carcinogenicity. (more) Deadline: Saturday, June 24, 2006	Jun 24, 2006
	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
	Hartline-Grafton, Heather; Nyman, Rebecca; Briefel, Ronette; Cohen, Rhoda	Prototype Notebook: Short Questions on Dietary Intake, Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors Report on survey questions used to assess dietary intake, knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors for low- income adults. Questions are ranked and information on question source, administration, reliability, validity, sensitivity to change, availability in another language, and other parameters is provided. Questions are listed that are related to fruits and vegetables, grains, legumes, and fiber, variety, fat, calcium food sources, nonalcoholic beverages, knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. Appendices include "Instruments Inventoried and Question Topic Areas," "Instruments Reviewed But Not Inventoried," "Glossary of Terms Used in the Notebook Template," "Instruments with Questions That Were Not Ranked," and "Citations". (more) Publication Month: September 2004	Sep 15, 2004
	Codex Committee on Food Additives and Contaminants (36th : 2004 : Rotterdam, The Netherlands), Codex Alimentarius Commission	Report of the 36th Session of the Codex Committee on Food Additives and Contaminants The report includes the Committee's decisions and draft documents on topics related to risk analysis, exposure assessment of contaminants and toxins, risk management of aflatoxin in peanuts and tree nuts, of lead in foods, of inorganic tin in canned foods, maximum levels of cadmium in certain grains and vegetables and of deoxynivalenol, levels for radionuclides in foods, standards for food additives, contaminants, and toxins, active chlorine, mycotoxins, and more. (more) Publication Month: April 2004	Apr 30, 2004
	United Kingdom Food Standards Agency	Retail Oat Products Survey Report of a survey of trichothecene levels in retail oat products in the United Kingdom. Publication Date: Friday, February 6, 2004	Oct 19, 2004
	Institute of Food Science and Technology	Salmonella typhimurium DT 104 This document provides an overview of Salmonella typhimurium DT 104. It includes discussion of incidence, characteristics, antibiotic resistance, sources, foods involved, and control methods. (more) Publication Date: Tuesday, November 11, 1997	Aug 9, 2002
	Senyuva, H.Z.; Gökmen, V.	Survey of Acrylamide in Turkish Foods by an In-house Validated LC-MS Method Report on a method for the determination of acrylamide in foods. The method was used to analyze acrylamide levels in retail Turkish foods. (more) Publication Month: March 2005	Jun 13, 2005
	AgriQuality Limited	Survey of Glyphosate, & Its Degradation Product AMPA, Residues in Wheat Report of a survey of residues of glyphosate and AMPA in domestic and imported wheat in New Zealand. Publication Date: Monday, June 28, 2004	Nov 8, 2004
	USDA Regional Pest Management Centers	USDA Crop Profiles This page provides access to crop profiles by state and by crop. Crop profiles include information on pounds harvested, cash value, yearly production costs, commodity destinations, %US production, and control measures for each type of pest, disease, and weed. (more)	Jul 19, 2002

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