Improving the integrity of the food chain, making certain that food is traceable, safe to eat, high quality and genuine requires new diagnostic tools, the implementation of novel information systems and input from all food chain participants. Food chain integrity reviews key res…
"This book exposes the inherent anomalies of our food production system, using as examples three o the most potent issues of our time - BSE, genetic modification (GM) and foot and mouth disease. Presenting the untold story of these crises, the author uncovers how critical scient…
Uncovers how critical scientists were marginalized while commercial interests, macro-economic policies and trade concerns overruled common sense, precaution, and health protection. [back cover].
An investigation of science, politics and our food production system, this text exposes the bogus science, political interference and flawed policies that threaten our food supply. The author tells the story of BSE, revealing how top scientists have been muzzled and how the epid…
This is an updated version of the popular First Edition and includes additional chapters on food and waste management, raw materials, and refrigerated foods. Useful to university faculty and students as well as to food industry professionals, the book provides a comprehensive in…
Traces the development of food processing knowledge, examines implications to human health, provides an understanding of the food processing environment, and investigates measures to control health hazards. Emphasizes food quality programs, with current information on HACCP, ISO…
Abstract: A comprehensive text for food scientists and for sanitation-related college courses focuses on the use of basic concepts and applications to solve food sanitation problems. Areas such as microbiology, food pests and their control, worker hygiene, and government regulat…
The book supplies an overview of food safety of RTE foods and various categories into which they fall. It also addresses the microorganisms of concern, the effect of processing on the survival of pathogenic and spoilage microorganisms, food safety, practical control measures, an…
"Globalization of the food supply has created conditions favorable for the emergence, reemergence, and spread of food-borne pathogens-compounding the challenge of anticipating, detecting, and effectively responding to food-borne threats to health. In the United States, food-born…
"Globalization of the food supply has created conditions favorable for the emergence, reemergence, and spread of food-borne pathogens-compounding the challenge of anticipating, detecting, and effectively responding to food-borne threats to health. In the United States, food-born…
Many risk management plans as currently implemented by the food industry, appear to be primarily designed to address bacteriological concerns. Hence, these often fail to function when public health risks associated with biological agents such as viruses and prions are to be addr…
