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Record W4390993635 · doi:10.51984/jopas.v22i3.2757

Analysis of Potassium Bromate Contents of Commonly Consumed Loaves of Bread Samples in Tokra-Libya

2023· article· en· W4390993635 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Pure & Applied Sciences · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldChemistry
TopicDye analysis and toxicity
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBromatePotassium bromateFood scienceEuropean unionChemistryOxidizing agentPotassiumToxicologyMathematicsBusinessBiologyBromideChromatography

Abstract

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Bread is one of the most popular foods consumed worldwide. It is a very popular foodstuff consumed in almost every house in Libya as well as in Tokra city as breakfast. Potassium bromate is an oxidizing agent that has been used as bread additive added to preserve the flavour and teste of the bread but continuing to consume it endangers health as a result of its carcinogenic effect, as it remains in the loaf of bread without disintegration, For this reason, Potassium bromate is banned in several countries, including Brazil, Canada, the European Union and the United Kingdom and the FDA has since 1991 merely encouraged bakers to voluntarily stop using it, with somewhat limited success. In this study, levels of residual bromate were determined in 21commercial breads and traditional loaf types from 7 automated bakeries, except for one, a manual bakery randomly were collected from different local bakeries in Tokra city and its environs (Libya), in Feb. 2023. The tested samples of bread were analyzed using two mothed (qualitative and quantitative analyses) a spectrophotometric method of bromate analysis. Bromate concentrations ranged from 0.07-0.29 μgg-1, with an overall mean concentration of 0.14±0.07 μgg-1(ppm). Significant differences were noticed.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.141
Threshold uncertainty score0.412

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.003
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Opus teacher head0.042
GPT teacher head0.292
Teacher spread0.250 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it