Processed foods, mutagen formation

It would appear that automated screening techniques will develop rapidly, once assay conditions are standardised with both microbial and mammalian cells. When this happens, as it will, the amount of data generated on the effects of food processing on formation of toxic and mutagenic chemicals will be phenomenal. 

Krone, C.A., Yeh, S.M.J. and Iwaoka, W.T. (1986). Mutagen formation during commercial processing of foods, Environ. Health Perspect., 67, 75-88. 

KRONE AND IWAOKA Mutagen Formation in Processed Foods Materials and Methods... 

Canned foods are another class of commercially processed foods which are widely consumed by the public. These products are subjected to extensive heat processing to achieve commercial sterility thus mutagen formation seemed to be a distinct possibility. A variety of canned meat, poultry, seafoods and vegetable products were therefore surveyed for mutagenicity (Tables III and IV). 

Kizil M., Fatih O., Besler H.T. A review on the formation of car-cinogenic/mutagenic heterocyclic aromatic amines. Journal of Food Processing and Technology, 2 120. doi 10.4172/2157-7110.1000120 (2011). 

A special concern regarding the pyrolysis of Maillard polymers is the formation in this process of mutagenic compounds. Some of these compounds were isolated from pyrolysed food [5,6]. The formulas of several such compounds are shown below ... 

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