Food Toxicology
Food contaminants are substances included unintentionally in Foods Some are harmless and others are hazardous because of the toxicological risks from their intake to the consumers.
• Contamination
• Raw material à environmental pollutants
• processing à filtering
• packaging & storage
Contaminants:
1: Heavy metals
2: Nitrate
3: Dioxins
4: Pesticide Residues
5: Packaging materials
6: Biotoxins
7: Mycotoxins