Food safety
Subtitle: contaminants and toxins
By: edited by J.P.F. D'Mello.
Contributors: D'Mello, J. P. Felix.
Publisher: CABI Pub.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford, OX; Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 452
Subjects: Food -- Toxicology.; Food -- Safety measures.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Plant toxins and human health / P.S. Spencer, F. Berman; title: Bacterial pathogens and toxins in foodborne disease / E.A. Johnson; title: Shellfish toxins / A. Gago Martinez and J.F. Lawrence; title: Mycotoxins in cereal grains, nuts, and other plant products / J.P.F. D'Mello; title: Pesticides: toxicology and residues in food and wine / P. Cabras; title: Polychlorinated biphenyls / D.L. Arnold and M. Feeley; title: Dioxins in milk, meat, eggs and fish / H. Fiedler; title: Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in diverse foods / M.D. Guillen and P. Sopelana; title: Heavy metals / L. Jorhem; title: Dietary nitrates, nitrites and N-nitroso compounds and cancer risk with special emphasis on the epidemiological evidence / M. Eichholzer and F. Gutzwiller; title: Adverse reactions to food additives / R.A. Simon and H. Ishiwata; title: Migration of compounds from food contact materials and articles / J.H. Petersen; title: Veterinary products: residues and resistant pathogens / J.C. Paige and L. Tollefson; title: Prion diseases: meat safety and human health implications / N. Hunter; title: The safety evaluation of genetically modified foods / M.J Gasson; title: Genetically modified foods: potential human health effects / A. Pusztai, S. Bardocz and S.W.B. Ewen; title: Radionuclides in food: the post-Chernobyl evidence / J.T. Smith and N.A. Beresford; title: Radionuclides in foods: American perspectives / E.J. Baratta; title: Widespread and continuing concerns over food safety; title: J.P.F. D'Mello.