TUBITAK MRC has taken the acrylamide reseach duty

TUBITAK MRC Food Institute is going on its extensive studies on acrylamide in comestibles in one of the FP6 projects in which it performs as a partner. 23 Institutes from 13 different countries are collaborating in this project which will be performed between 2003 and 2006. Within this project, institutes are going on their studies about the comestibles produced in their countries. To determine the health problems that food derived acrylamide may cause on human body and to minimize these risks is one of the aims of the project.

Within this project shortly named HEATOX, studies will be made to understand the health risks of different toxic substances -including acrylamide- which form during heating processes in different food types and to develop methodologies in order to minimize the formation of these toxic substances. Under the thematic area of FP6 Food Quality and Safety programme, EC supports 4.2 million Euro for the HEATOX project which aims to improve public health and welfare by providing safe food. The other collaborators of the HEATOX project which is being coordinated by Prof. Kerstin Skog from Sweden are lined up as Germany, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Norway, Turkey and Chile. Also, European Consumers' Organization (BEUC) is working in the project to execute the relation with consumers.

TUBITAK MRC, Food Institute is performing the scanning project on acrylamide contents of heat processed comestibles, also is collaborating with other European partners on standardization of methodologies related to acrylamide analysis. This scanning study is intensifying over product groups that were not examined previously. Among these products are bakery, potatoe chips, dried fruits/nuts, infant formulas, biscuits, extruded products, halvah, coffee, fried products and grilled food. Achieved data will be used in acrylamid health risk estimation studies which are still unclear. In the next step of TUBITAK MRC projects, studies for decreasing the acrylamid amount of comestibles are going to get started..

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Last Updated: 07.08.2009