title: Mutagenicity of nitrosated food items.
abstract: Several food items, commonly consumed in South India, after nitrite treatment under simulated gastric conditions were found to be mutagenic in Salmonella typhimurium tester strain TA 100. Dichloromethane extracts containing the volatile nitroso compounds and ethyl-acetate extracts with the non-volatile nitroso compounds of some of the food items exhibited mutagenicity.
authors.affiliation: Isotope Division, Cancer Institute, Madras, India.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Balachandran
authors.forename: S N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Sivaswamy
authors.forename: V M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Sivaramakrishnan
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003212:Condiments; D003890:Desiccation; D005399:Fishes; D005511:Food Handling; D005520:Food Preservatives / Q000494:pharmacology*; D005770:Gastrointestinal Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D006358:Hot Temperature; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D009152:Mutagenicity Tests; D009573:Nitrites / Q000494:pharmacology*; D012486:Salmonella typhimurium / Q000187:drug effects*; D014675:Vegetables
chemical_list: D005520:Food Preservatives; D009573:Nitrites