New Food Science Data Have Been Reported by Investigators at NESTEC Ltd. (A global approach for prioritizing chemical contaminants in raw materials of food for infants and young children)

2019 NOV 06 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Researchers detail new data in Science - Food Science. According to news reporting out of Lausanne, Switzerland, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “Chemical contaminants can occur at trace levels in foods or food ingredients either as intrinsic toxins produced in plant/animal metabolism or by external contamination due to fungal growth, agricultural practice, environment or food manufacturing processes. Monitoring and managing such unavoidable chemical contaminants in raw materials of foods is important for ensuring safe food for the consumer.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from NESTEC Ltd., “The aim of this study was to adapt an existing tool for ranking the chemical contaminants of raw materials used to produce food for infants and young children based on their likelihood to cause harm for the consumer. This tool was built on a risk-assessment based approach. The level of risk was defined according to a decision tree where the overall exposure, the main contributor and the distribution of the occurrence levels are key criteria. For developing this approach, a conservative global food intake scenario for infants and young children was established using several local data publicly available. Two case studies on cadmium and deoxynivalenol are described and showed consistent results with the findings of local total diet studies. In addition, this tool is flexible to adapt to global and specific local populations in adjusting the food intake scenario.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “It supports risk management in the identification and prioritisation of chemical contaminants.”

For more information on this research see: A global approach for prioritizing chemical contaminants in raw materials of food for infants and young children. Food Control, 2019;105():71-77. Food Control can be contacted at: Elsevier Sci Ltd, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, Oxon, England. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Food Control - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/food-control/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting T. Stroheker, NESTEC Ltd., Nestle, Ch-1000 Lausanne 26, Switzerland. Additional authors for this research include Y.J. Chung, G. Scholz and P. Mazzatorta.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2019.05.024. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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