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ArticleEFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority2020

Risk assessment of nitrate and nitrite in feed.

EFSA Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain (CONTAM), Dieter Schrenk, Margherita Bignami, Laurent Bodin, James Kevin Chipman, Jesús Del Mazo, Bettina Grasl-Kraupp, Laurentius Ron Hoogenboom, Jean-Charles Leblanc, Carlo Stefano Nebbia and 18 more

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Article in EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 40 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

28 authors.

EFSA Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain (CONTAM)
Dieter Schrenk
Margherita Bignami
Laurent Bodin
James Kevin Chipman
Jesús Del Mazo
Bettina Grasl-Kraupp
Laurentius Ron Hoogenboom
Jean-Charles Leblanc
Carlo Stefano Nebbia
Elsa Nielsen
Evangelia Ntzani
Annette Petersen
Salomon Sand
Tanja Schwerdtle
Christiane Vleminckx
Heather Wallace
Vasileios Bampidis
Bruce Cottrill
Maria Jose Frutos
Peter Furst
Anthony Parker
Marco Binaglia
Anna Christodoulidou
Petra Gergelova
Irene Munoz Guajardo
Carina Wenger
Christer Hogstrand

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The European Commission asked EFSA for a scientific opinion on the risks to animal health related to nitrite and nitrate in feed. For nitrate ion, the EFSA Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain (CONTAM Panel) identified a BMDL

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animalsexposurefeedmethaemoglobinNitrateNitriteoccurrence

Identifiers

PMID33173543
PMCPMC7610142
OpenAlexW3096995566

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