TY - JOUR
T1 - Anisakid infection levels in fresh and canned cod liver
T2 - Significant reduction through liver surface layer removal
AU - Klapper, Regina
AU - Carballeda-Sangiao, Noelia
AU - Kuhn, Thomas
AU - Jensen, Hannah Malene
AU - Buchmann, Kurt
AU - Gonzalez-Muñoz, Miguel
AU - Karl, Horst
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Canned liver is a highly valuable and healthy product from the important commercial fish species cod Gadus morhua. Due to high levels of contaminants such as dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) in cod liver products from the Baltic Sea, the grounds for supply of cod liver were relocated to areas around Iceland in the Irminger Sea with lower levels of contaminants. In the present study, 62 canned samples, as well as 132 fresh cod livers from Greenland and Iceland, were analysed in order to assess the infection levels with anisakid nematode species. High prevalence and abundance of the potentially zoonotic nematode species Anisakis simplex s.s. and Pseudoterranova decipiens s.s. were found in the fresh livers. Lower infection levels in canned livers compared to fresh livers might indicate successful industrial processing measures in order to reduce nematode larvae in the final products. However, two heat stable allergens, Ani s 1 and Ani s 4, were verified from isolated nematode larvae from canned products. The effectiveness of methods to further reduce the number of nematode larvae during industrial processing of cans with cod liver is discussed.
AB - Canned liver is a highly valuable and healthy product from the important commercial fish species cod Gadus morhua. Due to high levels of contaminants such as dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) in cod liver products from the Baltic Sea, the grounds for supply of cod liver were relocated to areas around Iceland in the Irminger Sea with lower levels of contaminants. In the present study, 62 canned samples, as well as 132 fresh cod livers from Greenland and Iceland, were analysed in order to assess the infection levels with anisakid nematode species. High prevalence and abundance of the potentially zoonotic nematode species Anisakis simplex s.s. and Pseudoterranova decipiens s.s. were found in the fresh livers. Lower infection levels in canned livers compared to fresh livers might indicate successful industrial processing measures in order to reduce nematode larvae in the final products. However, two heat stable allergens, Ani s 1 and Ani s 4, were verified from isolated nematode larvae from canned products. The effectiveness of methods to further reduce the number of nematode larvae during industrial processing of cans with cod liver is discussed.
KW - Allergen
KW - Anisakis simplex
KW - Cod liver
KW - Food safety
KW - Liver mesothelium
KW - Pseudoterranova decipiens
U2 - 10.1016/j.foodcont.2018.04.029
DO - 10.1016/j.foodcont.2018.04.029
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85047601691
SN - 0956-7135
VL - 92
SP - 17
EP - 24
JO - Food Control
JF - Food Control
ER -