The analysis of heterocyclic amines in common cooked foods has been extended to include
non-polar compounds, which have more or less been neglected in analysing Western diets.
The choice of dishes for this investigation was based on a previous dietary study in a population aged 50 75 yr in Stockholm (unpublished data), and includes fish, chicken, reindeer, lamb and egg, foods for which literature data on heterocyclic amine content are very scarce.