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Vol.
25 No. 2
March-April 2003
Trace
Elements in Food
Barbara
Szteke (editor and symposium chair)
Food
Additives and Contaminants, 2002, Vol. 19, No. 10, 905-1002
Some
trace elements are known to be essential to life, but of course,
even these elements can have toxic effects depending on the
chemical form, dose, route of absorption, and a host of other
factors. Other trace elements, especially heavy metals, are
well known as potentially "toxic" elements. Diseases caused
by improper nutrition, including the consumption of food contaminated
by trace elements, constitute serious problems in todays
world.
This
volume of Food Additives and Contaminants includes papers
presented at the 1st IUPAC International Symposium on Trace
Elements in Food that took place in Warsaw, Poland, on 911
October 2000. (See conference report, May 2001 CI, Vol. 23,
No. 3, p. 84) The symposium, which attracted some 128 participants
from 27 countries, was initiated by the IUPAC Food Chemistry
Commission and coorganized by the Polish Academy of Sciences,
the Warsaw University of Technology, the Polish Food Technologists
Society, and the Institute of Agriculture and Food Biotechnology.
The conference program included 25 oral presentations, supplemented
by 56 posters. This volume includes papers covering the following
subjects:
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sources and translocation of trace elements in the trophic
chain
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the occurrence and function of trace elements in food and
the related international legislative aspects
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the interaction of trace elements with other food components-toxicological
and nutritional aspects
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the significance of element speciation in food and its implication
for human health
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advances in methods for analyzing trace elements in different
food matrices
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the quality assurance and reference materials for their
analysis
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measurement in food from a metrology viewpoint
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the question of traceability in food measurements
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