TITLE:
Formalin Contaminated in Seafood and Frozen Meat at Somdet Market, Kalasin Province
AUTHORS:
Theeranat Suwanaruang
KEYWORDS:
Formalin, Seafood, Frozen Meat, Carcinogenic
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Environmental Protection,
Vol.9 No.12,
November
19,
2018
ABSTRACT: Formaldehyde
or formalin is highly toxic that is absorbed pleasantly by inhalation. The
object of this research was to analyze formalin that contaminated in seafood
and frozen meat. The method was to select samples at
Kalasin Province. The samples were mackerel, crisp squid, frozen chicken, Saba
fish, Shishamo fish, Jelly fish, Cockle, Clams, Squid, shrimp, White shrimp and
Dolly fish, respectively. The methods were to analyze formaldehyde with
titration and formalin test kit. Titration method used formic acid by excess of
iodine in alkaline solution. Formalin test kitof
Ministry of Public Health issued Act No.151 (B.E.2536) was to test formalin
contaminated food.The
results found formaldehyde in mackerel, crisp squid, frozen chicken, Saba fish,
Shishamo fish, jelly fish, cockle, clams, squid, shrimp, white shrimp and dolly
fish in three replicated were 288 mg/L, 228 mg/L, 293 mg/L, 77 mg/L, 282 mg/L,
180 mg/L, 120 mg/L, 48 mg/L, 229 mg/L, 294 mg/L, 295 mg/L and 293 mg/L, respectively. Formalin test kit was to found all samples were contaminated with formalin. Moreover,
the height formalin contaminated in white shrimp, the second were shrimp and
dolly fish, the third was frozen chicken, the fourth was mackerel, the fifth
was Shishamo fish, the sixth was squid, the seventh was crisp squid, the eighth
was jelly fish, the ninth was cockle, the tenth was Saba fish and the last was
clam. The World Health Organization classified formaldehyde was carcinogenic to
humans, considerately that there was a decent
proof for inflicting cavity cancer in humans.