Pests of Stored Foodstuffs and Their Control

• Main Author: Hill, Dennis S. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Food > Biotechnology.; Zoology.; Animal anatomy.; Chemistry/Food Science, general.; Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography.; Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology.; Food Science.
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This book is intended to serve as an introduction to the pests of stored foodstuffs of all types on a worldwide basis, and as a broad reference text. It is aimed at being complementary to the more detailed and more specific texts that are listed in the References. It does presuppose an adequate basi...

Table of Contents:

• Present Trends in Food Technology
• Stages in Food Production
• Types of Foodstuffs
• Food and Produce Preservation
• Packaging
• Types of Pests
• Types of Damage
• Storage Structures
• Food and Produce Transportation
• Pests: Class Mammalia
• Pests: Class Aves
• Pests: Phylym Mollusca
• Pests: Class Arachnida
• Pests: Class Insecta
• Pests: Phylum Platyhelminthes
• Pests: Phylum Nematoda
• Pests: Kingdom Protoctista
• Pests: Kingdom Fungi
• Pests: Kingdom Prokaryotae
• Food Poisoning
• Control of Pests of Stored Foodstuffs
• Pest Spectra for Stored Foodstuffs.