Food Safety and Human Health provides a framework to manage food safety risks and assure safe food system. This reference takes a reader friendly approach in presenting the entire range of toxic compounds found naturally in foods or introduced by industrial contamination or food processing methods. The book provides the basic principles of food toxicology, its processing and safety for human health to help professionals and students better understand the real problems of toxic materials in foods. This is an essential resource to help readers address the day to day problems regarding food contamination and safety. The book is particularly useful for graduate students, researchers and professionals in agri-food industry. Food safety and global healthManaging food safety risksAssuring safe food systems: Policy options for a healthier food supplyGenetically modified plants for food use and human health Measures to Improve Food Safety in the Food Production Domain Reader-friendly approachEasy to understandGood framework Encompasses the first pedagogic treatment of the entire range of toxic compounds found naturally in foods or introduced by industrial contamination or food processing methodsFeatures the areas of vital concern to consumers, such as toxicological implications of food, implications of food processing and its safety to human health and mechanism of their action along with general principles of food toxicologyFocuses on safety aspects of genetically modified foods available currently and also the range of processing techniques along with the important food safety laws world over INDICE: 1. Current Issues in Food Toxicology2. Food Hazards: Physical, Chemical and Biological3. Toxicity of Food Additives4. Food Allergies5. Safety of Dairy Products6. Safety of genetically modified food products GMOa7. Microbial environment offood spoilage8. Raw and processed foods9. Food Processing: consequence on nutritional quality and food safety implications10. Aflatoxins and food safety11. Functional foods
- ISBN: 978-0-12-816333-7
- Editorial: Academic Press
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 416
- Fecha Publicación: 31/07/2019
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés