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FOOD ADDITIVES AND CONTAMINANTS PART A-CHEMISTRY ANALYSIS CONTROL EXPOSURE & RISK ASSESSMENT
Volume 26, Issue 1, Pages 47-56Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/02652030802190276
Keywords
semicarbazide; nitrofurazone; 5-nitro-2-furaldehyde; Hofmann reaction; urea; hypochlorite; peroxyacetic acid; chlorourea; hydroxyurea; dairy; ion exchange
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Detecting illegal nitrofurazone treatment of food-producing animals has been undermined by the reliance on semicarbazide as a marker metabolite for analysis because, during processing, semicarbazide forms in a variety of foods not exposed to nitrofurazone by previously unexplained pathways. In this study, formation of semicarbazide was examined under dairy product processing conditions. Hypochlorite dosed into milk on an industrial scale, at concentrations extreme for unintentional residues, produced monochloramine, but, without pH adjustment, hypochlorite alone did not generate semicarbazide. Dosed hypochlorite and peroxyacetic acid each generated low ng g-1 levels of semicarbazide in milk (and whey) only when used in conjunction with localised high pH conditions, which can occur during both anion exchange and neutralisation. Dosed hydroxyurea generated semicarbazide at any pH, with greatest levels formed at high pH. Detecting nitrofurazone abuse can be better accomplished by analysis either for nitrofurazone itself or for the marker metabolite 5-nitro-2-furaldehyde, rather than semicarbazide.
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