مطالعه ميزان هيستامين در كنسروهاي ماهي تن و ساردين

A study of histamine contents of canned tuna and sardine of Iran

In this study in order to determining of histamine contents, 100 samples of canned fish (80 samples of tuna, 20 Samples of Sardine) frome 8 manufactures were analysed for histamine contents by chemical method of AOAC (5). Mean Concentration Of histamine ranged from 10 to 178mg/100gr for tuna and from 5 to 47mg/100gr for sardines. all values for canned sardines were well below the current UE tolerance limit of 50mg histamine/l00gr, but 41.25% canned, fish samples of tuna contained greater than tolerance limit of histamine cotents.