CHEMICAL CONTENTS OF THE FOOD: CURRENT POINT OF VIEW

CHEMICAL CONTENTS OF THE FOOD: CURRENT POINT OF VIEW

Nutrition and healthy living that are the people’s basic needs are possible with food safety. Food safety means all measures taken to eliminate the possible physical, chemical, biological and any kind of harms that the food might have. In the concept of food safety, “Case of being harmful to human health” is of great importance. Food consumed without any processing has several chemicals including food contaminants.  Processed foods (ready-made foods), on the other hand, contain additive in addition to these groups. Dioxin and similar compounds are significant environment and food pollutants with high risk of exposure. Some of these chemical pollutants in the foods, such as organic chloride compounds, pesticides are the chemicals that entered into our lives within the last 70 years. Therefore, in this study, it is aimed to analyze the chemicals within the foods currently with the forensic science perspective.

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  • Filiz Ekim ÇEVIK, Hüseyin ÇAKAN
  • Istanbul University Institute of Forensic Sciences