The occurrence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in Peking duck: Relevance to food safety assessment. 2011

Guo-Fang Lin, and Stefan Weigel, and Billy Tang, and Claudia Schulz, and Jian-Hua Shen
Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China.

Peking duck is one of the most well-known Chinese dishes. GC-MS analysis revealed that, either benzo(a)pyrene alone, or the total amount of major PAHs with carcinogenic potential for humans, reached levels of 8.7 and 54.7μg/kg, respectively. These levels greatly exceeded those found in grilled poultry in European countries. However, the intake of benzo(a)pyrene from a Peking duck meal (about 0.65μg) was not higher than that from the daily intake (for residents in the same area) from vegetables alone (about 2μg/day). Since Peking duck is still not a plebeian meat in this country, people would not consume it very often.

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