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  Kaytee » Ask The Experts » Antioxidants And Preservatives
However, since this time frame cannot be guaranteed, it is prudent to use the more stable chemical antioxidants for this critical function.
The commonly used chemical antioxidants, butylated hydroxyanisol (BHA), butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) and ethoxyquin, are all chemicals that research indicates could be potential carcinogens when fed to certain species at "extreme" levels.
As with most chemical safety testing, the experimental chemical is tested at a number of dietary levels, including levels that are magnitudes above the recommended or practical inclusion rate.
www.kaytee.com /ask_the_experts/antioxidants_and_preservatives   (860 words)

  
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Cardiac failure, aphonia (loss of voice), and absent deep tendon reflexes are characteristic.
BHA (Butylated Hydroxyanisol) and BHT (Butylated Hydroxytoluene) are food additives used to prolong shelf life.
They have come under increasing controversy from those advocating its usage because they have the fashionable antioxidant properties, which is fashionable today, and from those who are against additives in any form.
www.innvista.com /health/nutrition/glossary/b.htm   (756 words)

  
 Straightforward Food Additives Guide
Like BUTYLATED HYDROXYANISOL, BHT is a synthetic antioxidant originally developed for use in lard.
It is now widely used in fatty and oily foods including biscuits, breakfast cereals, confectionery, margarine, shortening, snack foods and vegetable oils.
The use of BHT is not permitted in baby foods in the UK.
www.straightforward.se /food_additives/Food_Additivesview.asp?key=72   (92 words)

  
 The Diagnosis and Management of Urticaria: A Practice Parameter - Part I: Acute Urticaria/Angioedema   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Food proteins incriminated in the precipitation of acute allergic urticaria include peanuts, nuts, fish, shellfish, wheat, eggs, milk, soybeans, and fruits.
Food additives such as benzoates, sulfites, monosodium glutamate, butylated hydroxyanisol, butylated hydroxytoluene, FDandC approved dyes and others have been implicated in some cases of urticaria.
Chronic urticaria exacerbated by the antioxidant food preservatives, butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) and butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT).
www.jcaai.org /pp/ur_part_1.asp   (3511 words)

  
 Welcome to the Denver Naturopathic Clinic
Polyphenol chemicals, many of them catechins, may make up as much as 30% of the dry weight of green tea.
In vitro (test tube) studies show that the components of green tea, particularly the catechins, have powerful antioxidant effects, even comparable to the preservative butylated hydroxyanisol (BHA).
They inhibit LDL oxidation (the process that leads to blocked arteries) better than Vitamin C, act as potent oxygen scavengers (preventing the biological equivalent of rusting), and block the activity of certain bacteria including those that cause cavities.
www.denvernaturopathic.com /news/greentea.html   (714 words)

  
 Entrez PubMed
BACKGROUND: Modulation of cytokine secretion may be of interest in the treatment of Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis.
METHODS: The effect of three antioxidants - butylated hydroxyanisol, tetrahydropapaveroline and nordihydroguaiaretic acid - on the production of tumour necrosis factor (TNF), interleukin (IL) 1, IL-6 and IL-8 (measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) by peripheral mononuclear cells and biopsies of inflamed colonic mucosa from inflammatory bowel disease patients were studied.
RESULTS: We observed a decrease in IL-1 and IL-6 production by peripheral mononuclear cells from inflammatory bowel disease patients (approximately 50% of control).
www.newtreatments.org /loadlocal.php?hid=582   (189 words)

  
 Oncogene - Abstract of article: Induction of apoptosis by the synthetic retinoid MX3350-1 through extrinsic and ...
MX3350-1 decreased the levels of antiapoptotic Bcl-2 and Bcl-XL, increased proapoptotic Bax, induced mitochondrial membrane permeabilization (MMP), and cytochrome c release from mitochondria to cytosol.
The antioxidant butylated hydroxyanisol and the MMP inhibitor cyclosporin A (Cs A) blocked apoptosis induced by MX3350-1.
In contrast, retinoid receptor antagonists failed to inhibit apoptosis.
www.nature.com /onc/journal/v24/n22/abs/1208339a.html   (414 words)

  
 Interferon-gamma-activated monocytes impair infectivity of HIV particles by an oxygen metabolite-dependent reaction.
The effect of the IFN-gamma activated release of ROI by human monocytes on the infectivity of free human immunodeficiency virus HIV) in the supernatant was investigated with the following results: First, IFN-gamma activated but neither control monocytes nor lipopolysaccharide stimulated monocytes effectively decreased the infectivity of cell-free HIV-1 in culture medium supernatant.
Second, the mechanism of inactivation was dependent on the enhanced spontaneous release of ROI by IFN-gamma activated mononuclear phagocytes since the enzyme catalase or the free radical scavenger butylated hydroxyanisol (BHA) could block this activity.
Third, soluble and solid-phase HIV-1 outer envelope glycoprotein (gp120) failed to trigger the oxidative burst activity after specific gp120-monocytic CD4 receptor interaction.
www.aegis.com /aidsline/1993/nov/M93B5439.html   (425 words)

  
 Antidotes for Poisoning by Paracetamol
The hepatotoxic effect of paracetamol in female mice is reduced by feeding the animals a diet containing 0.75% butylated hydroxyanisol (Miranda et al., 1983), possibly by increasing the concentration of reduced glutathione in the liver (Miranda et al., 1985).
Miranda CL, Henderson MC, Smith JA, & Buhler DR (1983) Protective role of dietary butylated hydroxyanisole against chemical-induced acute liver damage in mice.
Miranda CL, Henderson MC, & Buhler DR (1985) Dietary butylated hydroxyanisole reduces covalent binding of acetaminophen to mouse tissue proteins in vivo.
www.inchem.org /documents/antidote/antidote/ant03.htm   (16058 words)

  
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There is a lot of work being done to suppress the neoplastic manifestations of these interactions.
Three different areas of research deal with the process of chemical carcinogenesis: 1) Interfering with metabolic activation: There are molecules like butylated hydroxyanisol, which reduce the formation of the epoxide from benzopyrene.
But butylated hydroxyanisol is not applicable for treating cancer because it has been found to have carcinogenic properties by acting as a promoter.
www.uhmc.sunysb.edu /som/students/2003/Lectures/Path/path46.doc   (2193 words)

  
 Lowcountry NOW: Local News - Guinn: Additives help foods in many ways 04/30/04
Some of these additives sound familiar like salt, sugar, yeast and vanilla.
Others have complex scientific names that may sound unfamiliar, like ascorbic acid, butylated hydroxyanisol (BHA), sodium benzoate, sodium erythorbate and carageenan.
Whether familiar or not, all food additives serve a useful function and must be approved by the Food and Drug Administration before they can be included in food.
www.lowcountrynow.com /stories/043004/LOCguinn.shtml   (728 words)

  
 Therapeutic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
With a pleasant fragrance, it absorbs well and leaves the skin feeling smooth, light and moisturized.
IPM, Almond Oil, Emu Oil Crodalan LA, Dimethicone, Peppermint Essential Oil, Butylated Hydroxyanisol
Apply liberally to the affected areas as often as necessary.
www.healthsolutions.com.au /products/category2_1.htm   (441 words)

  
 Cockers.com
There IS NOT one diet that works for every IBD pet.
However, when choosing a dry food avoid synthetic preservatives such as butylated hydroxyanisol (BHA), butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT), propyl gallate, propylene glycol and ethoxyquin.
Avoid animal fats (found in many pet foods), high fat treats, processed foods, spicy foods, sugar and diary products.
www.cockers.com /educ/ibs.php   (1559 words)

  
 Interactive Fly, Drosophila
Intact PEST sequences are required for the phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate/ionomycin-induced p105 processing, because a 68-amino acid C-terminal deletion abolishes the response to stimulation.
When compounds that block Ikappa B alpha phosphorylation and degradation are tested, the serine protease inhibitors L-1-tosylamido-2-phenylethyl chloromethyl ketone and 1-chloro-3-tosyl-amido-7-amino-2-heptanone block inducible p105 phosphorylation, but the antioxidants pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate and butylated hydroxyanisol do not.
Thus, while regulation of the p105 IkappaB resembles that of lkappaBa, involving inducible serine phosphorylation and proteolysis of the inhibitory ankyrin repeat domain, regulation depends on a different, redox-insensitive, signaling pathway (MacKichan, 1996).
www.sdbonline.org /fly/torstoll/relish2.htm   (5332 words)

  
 Department of Toxicology, NC State University, Faculty, Yoshiaki Tsuji, Ph.D.
However, the entire ferritin H ARE has a unique structure, in which the two ARE motifs are separated by a GC-rich dyad symmetry element and are aligned in opposing directions.
butylated hydroxyanisol (BHA) used for food preservation, and oxidatively demethylated to t-BHQ in vivo) have been demonstrated to activate the ARE enhancer, the molecular mechanisms underlying transcriptional activation of these detoxification genes via the similar ARE motifs remain largely unidentified.
Questions to be addressed by our studies through characterization of the ferritin H ARE will be: 1) What is the composition of the ARE-protein binding complex?
www.tox.ncsu.edu /faculty/tsuji   (1586 words)

  
 Sirius High Quality Pet Foods
Many pet food companies use chemical antioxidants in their foods to prevent rancidity.
The most commonly used chemicals are BHA (Butylated Hydroxyanisol) Ethoxyquin and BHT Butylated Hydroxytoluene).
Some animal tests have shown adverse kidney, liver, brain, reproductive, behavioral and allergic reactions to these chemicals.
users.vnet.net /nutricon/sirius.htm   (2627 words)

  
 Welcome to polatoglu.com
Ingredients: Sunflower seed oil, fish oil, Evening Primrose oil, purified water, silica dimethyl silylate, Sobitan oleate, Zinc sulfate monohydrate, Tocopheryl acetate, Inositol, Butylated hydroxyanisol, Pyridoxine hydrochloride, Retinyl Palmiate, Biotin.
For dogs 40 pounds & over administer two Omegaderm packets once daily by mixing with food.
Ingredients: Sunflower seed oil, fish oil, evening primrose oil, purified water, silicon dioxide, sorbitan oleate, zinc sulfate monohydrate, tocopheryl acetate, inositol, butylated hydroxyanisol, pyridoxine hydrochloride, retinyl palmitate, biotin.
www.polatoglu.com /find.pl?limit=240&find=   (941 words)

  
 Curiosity Rats
The FDA doesn't regulate pet foods, so manufacturers can use preservatives and chemicals in them that are not approved for human consumption.
Some of these dangerous preservatives are butylated hydroxyanisol (BHA), butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT), and ethoxyquin.
Some very popular pet food brands contain these things (not naming names...), so read labels!
www.curiosityrats.com /productlemon.html   (1721 words)

  
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VAPOR OR MIST IS IRRITATING TO THE EYES, MUCOUS MEMBRANES AND UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT.
EXPOSURE CAN CAUSE: NAUSEA, HEADACHE AND VOMITING, SEDATION, IRRITABILITY, MARKED REDNESS OF SKIN, PEELING SKIN, DISCOMFORT, SENSITIVITY TO U.V. SECTION VI - Reactivity Data ================================================================================ STABILITY: STABILIZED WITH BUTYLATED HYDROXYANISOL AND BUTYLATED HYDROXYTOLUENE.
HAZARDOUS COMBUSTION: CARBON MONOXIDE, CARBON DIOXIDE HAZARDOUS POLYMERIZATION: WILL NOT OCCUR INCOMPATIBILITIES: OXIDIZING AGENTS MAY DECOMPOSE ON EXPOSURE TO AIR.
www.business_services.oregonstate.edu /property/msds/DATA/5552.htm   (345 words)

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