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High Content Screening Analysis to Evaluate the Toxicological Effects of Harmful and Potentially Harmful Constituents (HPHC)
Published on: May 10, 2016
Comparison of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) between smoked marc spirits and whiskies
Carla Da Porto1, Sabrina Moret
1Dipartimento di Scienze degli Alimenti, Università di Udine, Via Marangoni 97, 33100 Udine, Italy. carla.daporto@uniud.it
Abstract:
The presence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in three brands of smoked marc spirits, the only actually on the market, was studied and compared with literature PAHs concentrations reported for whiskies. In two brands of smoked marc spirit the higher-molecular-weight PAHs concentrations (5 and 6 rings PAHs) resulted higher (0.09-0.3 microg L (-1)) than in whiskies (0.00-0.02 microg L(-1)) and consequently higher resulted the carcinogenic potential expressed using the toxicity equivalent factor (TEF).
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