Table 2.
Occurrence of furan in commercial infant foods analysed between 2004 and 2010*
| Sample matrix | Numbers of samples in the range (µg kg−1) | Furan concentrations (µg kg−1) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| <2 | 2–5 | 5–10 | 10–20 | 20–30 | 30–40 | 40–50 | >50 | Mean ± standard deviation (SD) | Median | 95th percentile | |
| Beverages | 4 | 7 | 3 | – | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 15.1 ± 19.3 | 4.4 | 37.7 |
| Fruit/vegetables | 18 | 31 | 14 | 17 | 21 | 21 | 11 | 16 | 21.5 ± 20.2 | 18.0 | 39.7 |
| Menus | – | – | 3 | 19 | 21 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 30.4 ± 16.4 | 27.0 | 32.1 |
| Meats | – | 5 | 2 | – | – | – | – | 2 | 21.6 ± 35.9 | 4.0 | 70.3 |
| Porridges | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | – | 1 | – | – | 6.1 ± 9.6 | 2.5 | 18.8 |
| Infant formula | 18 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0.3 ± 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.6 |
*
A subset of these results analysed between 2004 and 2007 was previously published (Lachenmeier et al. 2009).