Furan levels in fruit and vegetables juices, nutrition drinks and bakery products

Furan, an oxygen containing monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, is considered possibly carcinogenic to humans. In the framework of the EU-project Role of Genetic and Non-Genetic Mechanisms in Furan Risk, furan levels in food have been collected from the literature. Three food type categories have been selected on the basis of the collected data for sampling and analysis on furan with headspace GC-MS. This paper describes the results for the selected food categories, fruit and vegetables juices, nutrition drinks and bakery products. An attempt has been made to correlate the furan levels with the ingredients of the products. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.