The 2012 RUFORUM Biennial Conference is the third in the series. The main objective of the Biennial conferences is to provide a platform for agricultural research for development stakeholders in Africa and beyond to actively exchange findings and experiences, while at the same time learning lessons towards improving performance of the agricultural sector and ultimately people’s livelihoods. The biennial conference is RUFORUM’s most comprehensive meeting for the diversity of stakeholers in agriculture. It is especially dedicated to graduate students and their supervisors, grantees in RUFORUM member universities and alumni. It is a platform for peer review, quality control, mentorship, networking and shared learning. The third Biennial Conference was attended by 657 participants.This record contains an extended abstract accepted under the theme of Food Science and Value Addition
Development and Evaluation of Models for Predicting Chemical Contaminant Migration in Foods
Abstract:
Polyethylene bags have become very popular for wrapping
ready food or during cooking. Polythene materials are known
to contain a wide range of potential migrants such as residues
from the polymerisation process, degradation compounds and
additives, many of which are toxic. There is need therefore to
assess the potential danger posed to humans by migration of
chemicals from polyethylene. Analysis of migrants in food is
expensive and time consuming because of low concentrations
of migrated substances and the complexity of the food matrix.
Therefore, dependable models that accurately predict the
progress of chemical contaminant migration in food is needed.
This research therefore aims to develop, simulate and validate
models capable of predicting the migration of chemical
contaminants by identifying and, quantifying plastic bag
contaminants so as to contribute to understanding of
contaminant migration, organoleptic changes, contaminant
diffusion and dispersion in “posho”
Les sacs en polyéthylène sont devenus très populaires pour
l’emballage des aliments préparés ou pendant la cuisson. Les
matériaux en polyéthylène sont reconnus de contenir un grand
nombre de migrants potentiels, tels que les résidus du procédé
de polymérisation, les produits de dégradation et les additifs,
dont beaucoup d’entre eux sont toxiques. Il est donc nécessaire
d’évaluer le danger potentiel pour l’homme par la migration de
produits chimiques de polyéthylène. L’analyse des migrants dans
les aliments est coûteuse et prend du tempsà cause de faibles
concentrations de substances migrées et la complexité de la
matrice alimentaire. Par conséquent, les modèles fiables qui
puissent prédire avec exactitude l’état d’avancement de la
migration des contaminants chimiques dans les aliments,sontnécessaires. Cette recherche vise donc à développer, simuler
et valider des modèles capables de prédire la migration des
contaminants chimiques par l’identification et la quantification
des contaminants des sacs en plastique afin de contribuer à la
compréhension de la migration des contaminants, des
modifications organoleptiques, de la diffusion des contaminants
et leur dispersion dans le “posho”.
Language:
English
Extended abstracts submitted under Food Science and Value Addition
Date of publication:
2012
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East Africa
Collection:
RUFORUM Conferences and Workshops
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Open Access
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Printed resource
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