Foodstuffs baby food

Plutonium in foodstuff intended for general consumption - 10Bqkg . Plutonium in baby foods or milk - 1 Bqkg. ... 

Some of the more important applications in food analysis include nitrates and nitrites in baby food products, excess of which can lead to induce methemoglobinemia (blue baby syndrome), and the monitoring of sulfite, which is added to many foodstuffs as a preservative and to bleach food starches, and is only recently being linked to serious health effects. Also, residual bromate can be monitored in bakery products from the continuing use of bromate salts as dough conditioners. 

Electrodialysis has a number of other large-scale applications and these would include the manufacture of pure sodium chloride for table salt (in Japan, electrodialysis is the principal method, production exceeding 10 ton year" ), the demineralization of cows milk (for baby food), cheese whey and sugar solutions, the removal of excess acid from fruit juice, the isolation of organic acids from reaction streams, and the production of low-salt foodstuffs. 

Animal foodstuffs, with the exception of unsalted butter, naturally contain much more sodium than unsalted vegetable foodstuffs. Curd is relatively sodium-poor. Most of the sodium contained in milk leaves the curd with the whey. Cheese (7000-28000 mg kg DM of sodium) and sausage obtain their high sodium concentrations through NaCl-supplementation. As with breast milk, the sodium concentration of infant formulas is lower in sodium than cows milk, and covers the sodium requirement of babies (Harzer and Haschke 1989, Baranowski 2000). Fresh trout store only 4000 mg kg DM of sodium, while smoked (and salted) trout contains 18000mgkg f Marine fish deliver between 6000 and 29000 mg kg DM of sodium to the food chain. By comparison, salted herring contain huge amounts of sodium, perhaps 100 g Na or 250 g NaCl kg DM. 

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