Quantitative Analysis of N-Nitrosamines by Gas Chromatography

Abstract

Of the chemicals known to exhibit carcinogenic properties one of the most extensive series is the collective group of nitrosamines. Most nitrosamines can initiate tumors in at least one animal species, and all animal species which have so far been tested are susceptible to nitrosamine carcinogenesis. Although nitrosamines exhibit carcinoginicity in the tested animal species, the tumors induced and the organs affected vary from different animals.