MCAP2 - Measurement and Control of Acrylamide in Production Processes

近期报章普遍报道食物中丙烯酰胺的问题，指出丙烯酰胺与人类癌症之间的潜在联系。这些文章的增加有助于提高公众的认识。食品行业和行业机构已经对这些值得关注的问题采取了行动，并为制造商提供了技术指导，以降低丙烯酰胺水平。安全限度尚未规定，留给行业实现ALARA作为目标。随着技术的发展和新的机会的出现，这显然是一个不断变化的目标，而实现减排的责任在于该行业。所面临的真实的挑战之一是供应链/制造过程的复杂性以及除了在实验室中相当长的延迟之外无法测量丙烯酰胺。该项目将研究以减少其产生丙烯酰胺的可能性的方式种植马铃薯的方法。它还将获得更好的在线测量/估计，以及如何利用来自供应链和生产线的信息来降低马铃薯制成品中的丙烯酰胺含量。随后，该项目将提供更好的测量和控制，增强消费者对马铃薯和马铃薯衍生产品以及面包和谷物安全性的信心。

Recent press reports on the problem of acrylamide in food products, observing the potential linkage between it and cancer in humans are common. The increasing nature of these articles serves to raise public awareness. The food industry and industry bodies have acted on these jutifiable concerns and have produced technical guidance to manufacturers to reduce acrylamide levels. Safe limits are not yet specified, leaving it to the industry to achieve ALARA as the target. This is clearly a moving target as technology develops and new opportunities arise and the onus is on the industry to achieve reductions. One of the real challenges faced has been the complexity of the supply chain / manufacturing process and the inability to measure acrylamide other than with considerable delay in a laboratory. This project will investigate approaches for growing potatoes in a manner that reduce their potential to produce acrylamide. It will also derive better online measurement / estimation and how information from the supply chain and manufacturing line can be used to reduce levels of acrylamide in manufactured potato products. Subsequently the project will deliver improved measurement and control providing increased confidence to the consumer in the safety of potato and potato-derived products alongside bread and cereals.