title: Overview of acrylamide monitoring databases.
abstract: Since high acrylamide levels in carbohydrate-rich food were reported in 2002, many research activities were started in order to gain knowledge on occurrence, formation, and prevention of this compound in food products. Among them, monitoring programs were conducted in many countries worldwide by official bodies as well as by the food industry. National and international bodies set up monitoring databases. In 2003, both the European Commission and the World Health Organization posted calls for data and placed their spreadsheets for the submission of data on the Web. The goal of the databases is to collect data for a reliable estimation of the exposure of consumers to acrylamide via the food chain. This paper describes the assessment of the data quality and outlines the composition of the data in the 2 databases, to date.
authors.affiliation: University of Maryland, Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, 0220 Symons Hall, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lineback
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wenzl
authors.forename: Ole P
authors.initials: OP
authors.lastname: Ostermann
authors.forename: Beatriz
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: de la Calle
authors.forename: Elke
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Anklam
authors.forename: Dominique
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Taeymans
mesh_terms: D020106:Acrylamide / Q000032:analysis* / Q000737:chemistry / Q000633:toxicity; D000178:Acrylamides; D002241:Carbohydrates / Q000737:chemistry; D019992:Databases as Topic; D005062:European Union; D005502:Food; D020387:Food Chain; D019649:Food Industry; D007391:International Cooperation; D020407:Internet; D011198:Solanum tuberosum; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D000178:Acrylamides; D002241:Carbohydrates; D020106:Acrylamide