SCIE 1P51 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Median Lethal Dose, Acceptable Daily Intake, Lecithin
13 Apr 2016
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Hydrogenation leads to a chemical forming of the fat. June 2007 canada set trans fat limits. For vegetable oil and soft, spreadable margarines to 2% of the total fat content, and. For all other foods to 5% of the total fat content, including ingredients sold to restaurants and/or made on site. With new canadian government calls for total ban on trans fats in foods. Keep oil and water based ingredients homogenized/ mixed mayonnaise, peanut butter. No food additives can be used without safety assessment and approval. The amount of a food additive, expressed on a body weight basis, that can be ingested daily over a lifetime without appreciate health risk. Effects of enzymes and gut flora on compound. To set mine the median lethal dose. Two species of animals- 10 animals per sex. Amount of chemical that kills exactly half of the population of animals. Ld50 is expressed as weight of substance per unit weight of test animal.
