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Baby Food Directive

For example, in order to meet the demanding requirements of legislation such as the European Union (EU) Baby Food Directive (Directive 95/5/EC and subsequent revisions), analysts must improve on the scope and sensitivity of multiresidue methods of analysis. This Baby Food Directive, which became effective on 1 July 2002, limits residues of all pesticides to a maximum level of 0.01 mgkg There will also be a banned list of pesticides, annexed to the Directive, which will not permit the use of certain pesticides on crops intended for use in baby food production. As a consequence, food manufacturers often require residue results for raw or primary ingredients within 24 8 h of sample receipt at the laboratory. [Pg.727]

Exposures of Children. Data need to be developed to properly assess the exposure of infants who eat processed baby foods containing residues of pesticides such as endosulfan. Several studies have estimated exposure based on endosulfan concentration found in foods typically eaten by infants however, no studies that directly studied infant exposure could be located. Attention should also be given to infant formulas and to the tap water used to prepare infant formulas from condensed or powdered forms. More data are also required to properly assess endosulfan exposure to children who live, play, or attend school near farmlands that are treated with endosulfan. Maps that catalog endosulfan use on crops and present average application rates would better allow an assessment of the potential for children in farming communities to be exposed. The possibility that farming parents work clothes and shoes may carry endosulfan residues into the home also should be studied. In addition, home use of endosulfan, which may result in exposure of children, needs to be investigated. [Pg.245]

After calibration of the HPLC, a food-based quality control material or reference material should be analyzed on a routine basis to validate the performance of the method. The chromatograms illustrated in the following sections of this chapter are of a food matrix created from a mixture of baby foods and infant formula however, a similar standard food reference material (SRM 2383) may be directly purchased from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). [Pg.863]

M. Pardo-Martinez, P. Vifias, A. Fisher, S. J. Hill, Comparison of enzymatic extraction procedures for use with directly coupled high performance liquid chromatography-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry for the speciation of arsenic in baby foods, Anal. Chim. Acta, 441 (2001), 29-36. [Pg.631]

Directly from farms we source most of our milk requirements, part of our coffee needs and most of the fruit and vegetable we need for the production of baby food. The latter are most difficult to find in the open market, because a certain percentage of these fruits and vegetables have pesticide residues above 10 ppb. These residues are in almost all cases within the legal limits for common food products and without any health risk. However, for our needs it would be too costly, too risky and logistically not feasible to test all raw materials before we could release them for the production of baby food. [Pg.59]

European Commission. 1999. Commission Directive 1999/39/EC of 6 May 1999 amending Directive 96/5/EC on processed cereal-based foods and baby foods for infants and young children. European Cormnission, Brussels. [Pg.42]

At the moment there is no specific EU legislation for rubber food contact materials or articles (other than nitrosamines in babies dummies). All such materials or articles need to comply with the general Eramework Directive 89/109/EEC so that in normal use they will not transfer their constituents to food in quantities that could endanger health or cause unacceptable changes in the composition of food or deterioration in its organoleptic properties (i.e. taste, texture, aroma, or appearance). [Pg.278]

Exposure to hexachlorobenzene occurs primarily from eating low levels in contaminated food, water, fish, and vegetables. Unborn children could also be exposed in utero and nursing babies may be exposed from mothers. Direct contact with contaminated soil is also another possible route of exposure. Workers involved in the manufacture or application of hexachlorobenzene also run the risk of exposure through inhalation. [Pg.1323]

Soy protein foods dried by direct flame Some alcoholic beverages Food-contact elastic nettings Rubber baby bottle nipples Cosmetics... [Pg.319]

Kawamura et al. [81] have surveyed nonylphenol by GC-MS (with quantification by GC-SIM-MS) in 207 samples of food contact plastics and baby toys. Crompton [43] has described the quantitative GC analysis of residual vinylchloride, butadiene, acrylonitrile, styrene and 2-ethyIhexylacrylate in polymers by solution headspace analysis. Considerably greater sensitivities and shorter analysis times were obtained using the headspace analysis methods than were possible by direct injection of polymer solutions into a GC. Similarly, various residual hydrocarbons (10 ppm of isobutane, n- and isopentane, iso- and neohexane) in expanded PS were determined by GC analysis of a solution of the sample with hydrocarbon internal standards accuracies of 5 to 10% were reported [82]. Residual n- and isopentane (0.001%) in expandable and expanded PS were also determined by a solvent-free procedure consisting of heating the polymer at 240°C in a sealed tube, followed by HS-GC calibration against known blends of n- and isopentane and n-undecane internal standard [82]. [Pg.627]

Salt is consumed in all industrialized societies, in fact also in the great majority of countries with a purely rural economy. It is therefore an ideal vehicle for iodine. Food is indirectly iodized by being salted with iodized salt, in a few instances with salt of a particularly high iodine content (e.g. bread in the Netherlands). Direct addition of iodine compounds to food is impracticable and not in use, with the exception of commercial baby formula feedings. [Pg.261]

A genetic disease is the result of a defective enzyme caused by a mutation in its genetic code. For example, phenylketonuria (PKU) results when DNA cannot direct the synthesis of the enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase, required for the conversion of phenylalanine to tyrosine. In an attempt to break down the phenylalanine, other enzymes in the cells convert it to phenylpyruvate. If phenylalanine and phenylpyruvate accumulate in the blood of an infant, it can lead to severe brain damage and mental retardation. If PKU is detected in a newborn baby, a diet is prescribed that eliminates all the foods that contain phenylalanine. Preventing the buildup of the phenylpyruvate ensures normal growth and development. [Pg.609]


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