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Some Naturally Occurring Substances: Food Items and Constituents, Heterocyclic Aromatic Amines and Mycotoxins

IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans Volume 56

IARC

1993

ISBN-13

978-92-832-1256-0

ISBN-13

978-92-832-1256-0

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Evaluates the carcinogenic risk to humans posed by the ingestion of several naturally occurring substances. Separate monographs are presented for two food items (salted fish and pickled vegetables), two naturally occurring plant substances (caffeic acid and d-limonene), four heterocyclic aromatic amines found in cooked meat and fish, and selected mycotoxins, including aflatoxins. The monograph on salted fish concentrates on fish as traditionally prepared in southern China, where very high rates of nasopharyngeal carcinoma have been linked to the consumption of salted fish prepared in a manner which involves putrefaction. The monograph concludes that Chinese-style salted fish is carcinogenic to humans. The second monograph concludes that pickled vegetables, prepared according to traditional Asian methods, are possibly carcinogenic to humans. Caffeic acid was judged to be possibly carcinogenic to humans. The report was unable to classify the carcinogenicity of d-limonene. For the heterocyclic aromatic amines present in cooked meat and fish, IQ was classified as probably carcinogenic to humans; MeIQ, MeIQx, and PhIP were classified as possibly carcinogenic. The most extensive monograph, on aflatoxins, concludes that naturally occurring mixtures of aflatoxins are carcinogenic to humans and that aflatoxin M1 occurring in milk is possibly carcinogenic. Toxins derived from Fusarium moniliforme and ochratoxin A, which has been linked to Balkan endemic nephropathy, were classified as possibly carcinogenic to humans. The remaining mycotoxins could not be classified.

Cover

Contents and Note to the Reader

List of Participants

Preamble

General Remarks

 

THE MONOGRAPHS

  Food Items and Constituents
     Salted Fish

     Pickled Vegetables

     Caffeic Acid

     d-Limonene

  Heterocyclic Aromatic Amines

     IQ (2-Amino-3-methylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoline)

     MeIQ (2-Amino-3,4-dimethylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoline)

     MeIQx (2-Amino-3,8-dimethylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoxaline)

     PhIP (2-Amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5-b]pyridine)

  Mycotoxins

     Aflatoxins: B1, B2, G1, G2, M1 [see also Volume 82]
     Toxins Derived from Fusarium Graminearum, F. Culmorum and F. Crookwellense:
        Zearalenone, Deoxynivalenol, Nivalenol and Fusarenone X

     Toxins Derived from Fusarium Moniliforme: Fumonisins B1 and B2 and Fusarin C
     [see also Volume 82]

     Toxins Derived from Fusarium Sporotrichioides: T-2 Toxin

     Ochratoxin A

 

 


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