Monday, July 7, 2008

Allowable daily intake of food toxins

I've managed to find allowable daily intake[ADI] of mycotoxins, i've combined my research together with lecia's research. The ADI of various toxins can be found at this site. It's a european food regulation site

http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/36/2004_food_table_bact.pdf

Suprisingly, it is much harder to find established report on the ADI of food toxins synthezised by bacteria commonly found in food. However, i could find the Median lethal dose(LD50) of these toxins, i'll put it up on the report until i manage to find the ADI. The lethal dosage basically stands for the dosage to ingest that will lead to death.

This is one of the site i used to find the median lethal dosage of several bacteria

http://www.itg.be/itg/DistanceLearning/LectureNotesVandenEndenE/48_Mycotoxinsp2.htm

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