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TOXICOLOGICAL AND HYGIENIC EVALUATION OF FOOD MIXTURE FROM HYPERICUM PERFORATUM AND RHODIOLA ROSEA

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The study of toxicological and hygienic properties of the mixture from Hypericum perforatum (HP) and Rhodiola rosea (RR) for food use in the population was done. Investigations on the exclusion of the toxicity of a mixture of HP and RR have been conducted in accordance with generally accepted methodological approaches. The experiments were performed on experimental animals (white rats and rabbits) with identification of integral, physiological, hematological and histological indices recommended for such investigations. The animals were divided into control and experimental groups of 10 animals each. All animals were provided with a double control due to the presence of the control group and data recording before starting the experiment. A mixture of HP and RR was administered orally and intraperitoneally to each group of animals. Biochemical and morphological investigations of the blood of experimental animals at the 1st and 15th day of the monitoring were conducted. It was revealed that red blood cells, white blood cells, the cholinesterase of blood serum, the activity of catalase, lactic and pyruvic acid in the blood, sulfhydryl groups, serum protein and urea in the blood did not have significant deviations compared with the control group. The organs of decapitated animals did not have pathological changes. These results indicate that in the composition of the powdered food mixture of HP and RR there are no toxic substances, it is safe according to the criteria of ecological and hygienic human nutrition concept. The complex of toxicological and hygienic investigations on acute, subacute toxicity, cumulative properties, mutagenic, embryotoxic and local irritating action, carrying out microbiological analysis and organoleptic investigations indicates the absence of toxic substances, pathogenic microorganisms and their toxins in a mixture of HP and RR, which proves their harmlessness for warm-blooded organism.

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Ekaterina A. Litovchenko
Amur State Medical Academy
Russian Federation


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Litovchenko E.A. TOXICOLOGICAL AND HYGIENIC EVALUATION OF FOOD MIXTURE FROM HYPERICUM PERFORATUM AND RHODIOLA ROSEA. Bulletin Physiology and Pathology of Respiration. 2016;(59):54-58. (In Russ.)

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