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Monitoring of tin residues in some canned food collected from the Egyptian local markets during the period of 1998 – 2000

Abstract

Poor handling, transportation and bad storage practices might cause problems in canned food through denting or damage due to the can seams. A total of 196 of locally manufactured and imported samples of some types of canned food were collected from eight Egyptian local markets located in Cairo Governorate and all samples were examined for tin residues. Overall, 24% of the total samples were found to be free from tin residues, however 76% of the samples were found to contain detectable residues and 7.4 % out of total samples analyzed exceeded tin Maximum Limits (ML's) according to Egyptian Organization Standardization (EOS) ML's . It was found that the solid canned food samples showed higher contamination rates (85.1 %) than liquid canned food samples (47.9%). Solid canned food exhibited a violation of 7.4%, while in liquid canned foods there was no violation above the established tin ML's. Dietary exposures to tin contaminant was mathematically estimated to see if there are any risks to health from the levels of this contaminant found in some canned food. Therefore, the mathematical calculated results showed that dietary exposures to tin are not a cause of the risk of any chronic health effects for the consumers. KEY WORDS: Tin, canned food. Monitoring, dietary intake

Publication year

2003

Availability location

المعمل المركزى لتحليل متبقيات المبيدات والعناصر الثقيلة فى الأغذية --7 شارع نادى الصيد - الدقى - الجيزة

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Organization Name

Central Laboratory of Residue Analysis of Pesticides & Heavy Metals in Foods (QCAP) Accredited according to ISO 17025

serial title

J.Adv. Agric. Res.

Department

Heavy Metals Analysis

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