Levensmiddelenverpakkingen gemaakt van oud-papier en karton: migratie van minerale oliën : Rapportage vanuit het additioneel onderzoek-pakket binnen TiFN SD002 in opdracht van KIDV

This report gives an overview of the scientific literature on the migration of undesired substances from packages made from recycled paper & board to foodstuffs with a focus on mineral oils. The knowledge is placed into an independent scientific perspective with regard to analysis, technology, legislation and sources by Wageningen Food & Biobased Research (WFBR) and with regard to exposure, toxicology and risk assessment by TNO (organisation for applied scientific research)

Complex mixtures: Relevance of combined exposure to substances at low dose levels

Upon analysis of chemically complex food matrices a forest of peaks is likely to be found. Identification of these peaks and concurrent determination of the toxicological relevance upon exposure is very time consuming, expensive and often requires animal studies. Recently, a safety assessment framework based on the Threshold of Toxicological Concern (TTC) was published to assess the safety of chemically complex matrices more efficiently. In this safety assessment framework, the toxicological relevance of exposure to unidentified substances in chemically complex food matrices can be related to the Cramer class III TTC threshold, currently set at 90. μg/day. However, possible additive or synergistic effects of combined exposure is not covered.The current evaluation describes the relevance of combined low dose exposure to unidentified substances in chemically complex food matrices. It is concluded that to some extent cumulative effects at exposure levels for each substance at or below the Cramer class III TTC threshold, being present in a complex mixture including food, might occur. However the health relevance of possible cumulative effects at this dose level is considered to be that low that a need for a correction factor to cover possible cumulative effects is very low to absent. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd

A TTC threshold for acute oral exposure to non-genotoxic substances

To derive an acute TTC threshold, the correlation between Allowable Daily Intakes (ADIs, chronic values) and Acute Reference Doses (ARfDs) of pesticides evaluated in the EU was investigated and their distributions were compared. The correlation between ARfDs and ADIs was significant (p ¼ 0.01), but weak (r2 ¼ 0.051). Consequently, using this approach to derive acute TTC values does not seem valid. Therefore, the distributions of ARfDs and ADIs were compared directly, in order to extrapolate from chronic to acute TTC values. This comparison made for the combined Cramer structural class II and III pesticides showed a ratio ARfD/ADI of approximately 3 at the fifth percentile of the distributions

Quantifiable risk–benefit assessment of micronutrients: From theory to practice

The EU Food Supplements Directive (2002/46/EC) mandates the determination of both maximum and minimum permitted levels (MPLs) for micronutrients. In order to determine MPLs which are feasible for particular population groups, a scientific approach should be used in which risk of high intake, risk of inadequacy and benefits are assessed in an integrated way taking all available data and severity and incidence of effect into account. In 2004, Renwick et al. (ILSI Europe) published a scientifically valid, flexible and pragmatic basis for a risk–benefit approach, which has been further developed here to make it a practical and quantifiable approach to be used by risk managers. The applicability of the approach is demonstrated using demo cases on iron and folate. The proposed approach has the capacity to utilize all relevant data available, including data from human studies, bioavailability data showing variability between specific forms of micronutrients and, in the case of animal studies, data on species comparability. The approach is therefore both practical and flexible, making it well suited to risk managers tasked with determining safe intake levels for micronutrients in different forms and for particular population groups. © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC © 2017, © Lisette Krul, Bas H. A. Kremer, Niels B. Lucas Luijckx, and Winfried R. Leeman

A novel safety assessment strategy applied to non-selective extracts

A main challenge in food safety research is to demonstrate that processing of foodstuffs does not lead to the formation of substances for which the safety upon consumption might be questioned. This is especially so since food is a complex matrix in which the analytical detection of substances, and consequent risk assessment thereof, is difficult to determine. Here, a pragmatic novel safety assessment strategy is applied to the production of non-selective extracts (NSEs), used for different purposes in food such as for colouring purposes, which are complex food mixtures prepared from reference juices. The Complex Mixture Safety Assessment Strategy (CoMSAS) is an exposure driven approach enabling to efficiently assess the safety of the NSE by focussing on newly formed substances or substances that may increase in exposure during the processing of the NSE. CoMSAS enables to distinguish toxicologically relevant from toxicologically less relevant substances, when related to their respective levels of exposure. This will reduce the amount of work needed for identification, characterisation and safety assessment of unknown substances detected at low concentration, without the need for toxicity testing using animal studies. In this paper, the CoMSAS approach has been applied for elderberry and pumpkin NSEs used for food colouring purposes

Micropropagação do porta-enxerto de videira '420-A' Micropropagation of '420-A' grapevine rootstock

O objetivo deste trabalho foi estabelecer um protocolo para a micropropagação do porta-enxerto de videira 420-A. O estabelecimento das culturas foi realizado com segmento nodal, cuja fonte dos explantes foram brotações de estacas lenhosas armazenadas sob refrigeração. No cultivo inicial, foram testados: o efeito de 6-benzilaminopurina e cinetina nas concentrações de 0; 1; 5 e 10 &micro;M, diferentes meios de cultura (MS, NN e WPM) e diluições do meio básico (MS, MS/2, MS/4 e MS/8). Na fase de alongamento e multiplicação, os meios de cultura testados foram MS, MS/2, NN e WPM. No enraizamento, foram testados: o meio de cultura MS/2 sem e com carvão ativado (1gL-1). Na aclimatização, foram testados vermiculita, Plantmax® e casca de arroz carbonizada como substrato. A cinetina não apresentou efeito sobre a brotação e o crescimento dos segmentos nodais. Já o BAP promoveu um aumento no número de brotos por explante. O aumento na concentração de BAP reduziu o número de folhas emitidas por explante e aumentou os sintomas de vitrificação, sendo os melhores resultados obtidos com 1 &micro;M de BAP. No cultivo inicial, o meio de cultura MS, com a concentração normal de sais, permitiu o maior crescimento das brotações. As diluições do meio MS em 1/4 e 1/8 mostraram-se prejudiciais ao desenvolvimento do porta-enxerto '420-A', afetando o crescimento das brotações após o primeiro subcultivo. Durante a multiplicação o meio MS/2 foi o que proporcionou melhores resultados. O enraizamento ocorreu naturalmente durante a multiplicação, sendo desnecessário o uso de carvão ativado no meio de cultura. A aclimatização foi realizada com sucesso em câmara de nebulização, com substrato vermiculita (95,8%) e Plantmax® (87%). Conclui-se que o porta-enxerto '420-A' pode ser micropropagado pelo cultivo inicial de segmentos nodais em meio de cultura MS + 1 &micro;M de BAP, alongamento das brotações e multiplicação pelo seccionamento das mesmas em meio MS/2 e aclimatização em substrato vermiculita ou Plantmax®.<br>The objective of this work was to establish a protocol for the rootstock of 420-A micropropagation. The establishment of the cultures was accomplished with nodal segments, whose source of explants was the budding of woody stakes stored under refrigeration. In the initial cultivation were tested: the effect of 6-benzilaminopurine and kinetin with 0, 1, 5 and 10 &micro;M concentrations, different culture medium (MS, NN and WPM) and dilutions of the basic medium (MS, MS/2, MS/4 and MS/8). In the alongation and multiplication steps were tested the following culture medium: MS, MS/2, NN and WPM. In the rooting were tested: the MS/2 culture medium with or without activated coal (1gL-1). In the acclimatization were tested the substrate vermiculite, Plantmax and carbonized rice hulls. The kinetin didn't present effect on the budding and the growth of the nodal segments. BAP already promoted an increase in the number of sprouts per explant. The increase in the concentration of BAP reduced the number of leaves emitted by explant and increased the vitrification symptoms, being the best results obtained with 1 &micro;M of BAP. In the initial cultivation the MS medium culture with the normal concentration of salts allowed the largest growth of the buddings. The dilutions of the MS medium in &frac14; and 1/8 showed very harmful to the development of the rootstock '420-A', being quite harmed the growth of the shoots after the first subcultivation. During the multiplication the medium MS/2 showed more appropriate. The roots happened naturally during the multiplication, being unnecessary the use of activated coal in the culture medium. The acclimatization was accomplished with success in a misty camera, being obtained high survival rates in vermiculite (95,8%) and Plantmax® (87%). It is concluded that the rootstock '420-A' can be micropropagated by initial cultivation of nodal segments in a culture medium of MS+1&micro;M of BAP, multiplication by sectionalizing the shoots in MS/2 medium and acclimatization in vermiculite substratum or Plantmax®