Food safety : contaminants and toxins /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: D'Mello, J. P. Felix
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxon, UK ; Cambridge, MA : CABI Pub., [2003]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book.
Table of Contents:
  • Plant toxins and human health
  • Bacterial pathogens and toxins in foodborne disease
  • Shellfish toxins
  • Mycotoxins in cereal grains, nuts and other plant products
  • Pesticides : toxicology and residues in food
  • Polychlorinated biphenyls
  • Dioxins in milk, meat, eggs and fish
  • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in diverse foods
  • Heavy metals
  • Dietary nitrates, nitrites and N-nitroso compounds and cancer risk with special emphasis on the epidemiological evidence
  • Adverse reactions to food additives
  • Migration of compounds from food contact materials and articles
  • Veterinary products : residues and resistant pathogens
  • Prion diseases : meat safety and human health Implications
  • The safety evaluation of genetically modified foods
  • Genetically modified foods : potential human health effects
  • Radionuclides in foods : the post-Chernobyl evidence
  • Radionuclides in foods : American perspectives
  • Widespread and continuing concerns over food safety