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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Total cyanide content of cassava food products in Australia |
Author: | Burns, A. Bradbury, J. Cavagnaro, T. Gleadow, R. |
Citation: | Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, 2012; 25(1):79-82 |
Publisher: | Academic Press |
Issue Date: | 2012 |
ISSN: | 0889-1575 1096-0481 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Anna E. Burns, J. Howard Bradbury, Timothy R. Cavagnaro, Roslyn M. Gleadow |
Abstract: | Cassava products obtained in two major Australian cities, Melbourne and Canberra, were analysed for total cyanide content using the picrate method. In Melbourne in 2010, ready to eat cassava chips were found to contain large amounts of cyanide with a mean value of 91mg HCN equivalents/kg fresh weight=ppm. In Canberra, similar values were found over a six-year study with cassava chip samples, except for one sample that gave 7ppm, which was obtained in 2011 after the introduction by Food Standards Australia and New Zealand of a 10ppm maximum limit. In Melbourne, the highest value obtained was 262ppm. A calculation based on this very high cyanide sample and using the lethal dose of cyanide for humans, shows that a child of 20kg body weight would only need to eat 40–270g of these chips to reach the lethal dose. Frozen cassava roots gave a mean value of 52ppm total cyanide, which is also a cause for concern. In contrast, more highly processed foods contained<1ppm total cyanide. |
Keywords: | Cassava; Manihot esculenta Crantz; cyanide; cyanogenic glucosides; cyanogenesis; toxins; food safety; picrate method; food processing; food analysis; food composition |
Rights: | © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jfca.2011.06.005 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jfca.2011.06.005 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 7 Earth and Environmental Sciences publications |
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