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Chemical food contaminants during food processing: sources and control

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Abstract

With the development in international food trade, there has been emerging risks in the food chain. Food contamination can be caused by several factors in a complex food chain. This articles provides a comprehensive review of known chemical contaminants from the production of raw materials to the consumption of food products as well as prevention and control measures. Specifically, this review discusses the following topics, raw material contamination caused by environmental pollution, endogenous food contamination caused by processing methods, and cold chain system challenges in food e-commerce.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Funding

The work described in this article was supported by National Key R&D Program of China (2018YFC1602300), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20171139), Key R&D Program of Jiangsu Province (BE2019362), Forestry Science and Technology Innovation and Extension Project of Jiangsu Province (No.LYKJ[2017]26), National First-class Discipline Program of Food Science and Technology (JUFSTR20180509), Science and Technology Project of Jiangsu Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision (KJ175923 and KJ185646), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Funded Project (2018M642165), and Science and Technology Plan of Suzhou City (SS2019016).

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