Food safety : contaminants and toxins /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2003.
• Subjects: Food > Toxicology.; Food > Safety measures.; Pesticide and Drug Residues and Ecotoxicology, (New March 2000); Milk and Dairy Produce.; Meat Produce.; Eggs and Egg Products.; Crop Produce.; Aquatic Produce.; Food Storage and Preservation.; Food Additives.; Food Contamination, Residues and Toxicology.; Human Nutrition (General); Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Humans, (New March 2000); Human Toxicology and Poisoning, (New March 2000); Toxinology, (New March 2000); Genetic Engineering, Gene Transfer and Transgenics, (New June 2002); Bacteria.; Fungi.; Man.; Aromatic hydrocarbons.; Bacterial toxins.; Dioxins.; Drug residues.; Drugs.; Food additives.; Food allergies.; Food contamination.; Food poisoning.; Food safety.; Foodborne diseases.; Foods.; Genetically engineered foods.; Heavy metals.; Human diseases.; Microbial contamination.; Mycotoxins.; Nitrates.; Nitrites.; Nitroso compounds.; Pesticide residues.; Pesticides.; Polychlorinated biphenyls.; Polycyclic hydrocarbons.; Prions.; Toxins.; Electronic books.
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This textbook covers the recent developments in the chemistry, biochemistry and physiological effects of contaminants that might have an impact on human health and welfare. It also discusses risk management and regulatory issues. It contains 19 chapters that are divided into 4 sections. The first pa...

Table of Contents:

• Plant toxins and human health / P.S. Spencer, F. Berman
• Bacterial pathogens and toxins in foodborne disease / E.A. Johnson
• Shellfish toxins / A. Gago Martínez and J.F. Lawrence
• Mycotoxins in cereal grains, nuts, and other plant products / J.P.F. D'Mello
• Pesticides : toxicology and residues in food / P. Cabras
• Polychlorinated biphenyls / D.L. Arnold and M. Feeley
• Dioxins in milk, meat, eggs and fish / H. Fiedler
• Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in diverse foods / M.D. Guillén and P. Sopelana
• Heavy metals / L. Jorhem
• Dietary nitrates, nitrites and N-nitroso compounds and cancer risk with special emphasis on the epidemiological evidence / M. Eichholzer and F. Gutzwiller
• Adverse reactions to food additives / R.A. Simon and H. Ishiwata
• Migration of compounds from food contact materials and articles / J.H. Petersen
• Veterinary products : residues and resistant pathogens / J.C. Paige and L. Tollefson
• Prion diseases : meat safety and human health implications / N. Hunter
• The safety evaluation of genetically modified foods / M.J Gasson
• Genetically modified foods : potential human health effects / A. Pusztai, S. Bardocz and S.W.B. Ewen
• Radionuclides in food : the post-Chernobyl evidence / J.T. Smith and N.A. Beresford
• Radionuclides in foods : American perspectives / E.J. Baratta
• Widespread and continuing concerns over food safety
• J.P.F. D'Mello.