scholarly journals Quantitative Risk Assessment of Acrylamide in Indonesian Deep Fried Fritters as Street Food Products

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 662-669
Author(s):  
Yoga Pratama ◽  
Liesbeth Jacxsens

Acrylamide, a carcinogenic and neurotoxic compound, is a public health concern in fried food products. This paper demonstrated, for the first time, the exposure assessment and risk characterization of acrylamide through consumption of deep fried fritters, a popular snack of Indonesian population which commonly sold as street food. Acrylamide concentration data were collected from selected monitoring data and laboratory simulated researches, while the consumption data covered 263 respondents (adult, age 16-40). Exposure assessment was conducted with probabilistic approach and followed by Margin of Exposure (MoE) calculation. Estimated mean, median (P50) and P95 acrylamide intake were 14.85, 4.10 and 76.06 µg/kg- bw/week, respectively. Thus, resulted in estimated 17.4% of population exceed the reported tolerable intake value (18.2 µg/kg-bw/week). MoE derived from average exposure was 75, indicating significant risk and need of risk management action. Possible mitigation of 70% acrylamide level reduction was simulated and MoE shifted towards 248. Although the MoE was increased, the value was still lower than 10,000 indicating a public health concern. The risk assessment study can be a valuable input for risk managers such as food safety authorities across Indonesia or neighboring countries consuming fried street foods.

2015 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 346-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Michael Sauer ◽  
Thomas Hartung ◽  
Marcel Leist ◽  
Thomas B. Knudsen ◽  
Julia Hoeng ◽  
...  

Risk assessment, in the context of public health, is the process of quantifying the probability of a harmful effect to individuals or populations from human activities. With increasing public health concern regarding the potential risks associated with chemical exposure, there is a need for more predictive and accurate approaches to risk assessment. Developing such an approach requires a mechanistic understanding of the process by which xenobiotic substances perturb biological systems and lead to toxicity. Supplementing the shortfalls of traditional risk assessment with mechanistic biological data has been widely discussed but not routinely implemented in the evaluation of chemical exposure. These mechanistic approaches to risk assessment have been generally referred to as systems toxicology. This Symposium Overview article summarizes 4 talks presented at the 35th Annual Meeting of the American College of Toxicology.


2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 202-208
Author(s):  
Anna Paes

Self-harm in adolescents is not only an important public health concern but also a prevalent maladaptive behaviour. The behaviour is poorly understood, and these young people still face stigma within our health service, as well as in society. To date, their management has been inadequate, due to some unhelpful attitudes, patchy provision of services and lack of training. This article aims to increase awareness and understanding of why adolescents self-harm, the importance of risk assessment, and how to provide appropriate support and care in general practice.


2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sorbari Igbiri ◽  
Nnaemeka A. Udowelle ◽  
Osazuwa C. Ekhator ◽  
Rose N. Asomugha ◽  
Zelinjo N. Igweze ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 1167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sasha R. Azar ◽  
Rafael K. Campos ◽  
Nicholas A. Bergren ◽  
Vidyleison N. Camargos ◽  
Shannan L. Rossi

Over the past century, the emergence/reemergence of arthropod-borne zoonotic agents has been a growing public health concern. In particular, agents from the genus Alphavirus pose a significant risk to both animal and human health. Human alphaviral disease presents with either arthritogenic or encephalitic manifestations and is associated with significant morbidity and/or mortality. Unfortunately, there are presently no vaccines or antiviral measures approved for human use. The present review examines the ecology, epidemiology, disease, past outbreaks, and potential to cause contemporary outbreaks for several alphavirus pathogens.


Author(s):  
Bethan Evans ◽  
Charlotte Cooper

Over the last twenty years or so, fatness, pathologised as overweight and obesity, has been a core public health concern around which has grown a lucrative international weight loss industry. Referred to as a ‘time bomb’ and ‘the terror within’, analogies of ‘war’ circulate around obesity, framing fatness as enemy.2 Religious imagery and cultural and moral ideologies inform medical, popular and policy language with the ‘sins’ of ‘gluttony’ and ‘sloth’, evoked to frame fat people as immoral at worst and unknowledgeable victims at best, and understandings of fatness intersect with gender, class, age, sexuality, disability and race to make some fat bodies more problematically fat than others. As Evans and Colls argue, drawing on Michel Foucault, a combination of medical and moral knowledges produces the powerful ‘obesity truths’ through which fatness is framed as universally abject and pathological. Dominant and medicalised discourses of fatness (as obesity) leave little room for alternative understandings.


2004 ◽  
Vol 8 (32) ◽  
Author(s):  

Resistance to antimicrobials has become a major public health concern, and it has been shown that there is a relationship, albeit complex, between antimicrobial resistance and consumption


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