Shaw, Ian C. <br/><br/>
Food safety :  the science of keeping food safe / 
Ian C. Shaw 
 - New Jersey :  Wiley-Blackwell,  c2013 
 - xi, 428 pages :  illustrations ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes index. 
<br/><br/>1 Introduction -- 2 Food Risk -- 3 Bacteria -- 4 Viruses -- 5 Parasites -- 6 Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) -- 7 Chemical Contaminants -- 8 Natural Toxins -- 9 Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals -- 10 Genetically Modified Food -- 11 Colours, Flavours and Preservatives -- 12 Food Irradiation -- 13 Food Safety and the Unborn Child -- 14 Organic Food -- 15 Food Allergy -- 16 Food Legislation. 
<br/><br/> Food safety is a modern concept. Remarkably, it is only in the last 200 years that such concepts as foodborne germs, and the means of combating them (such as antiseptics and refrigeration), have been popularised. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781444337228 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>FOOD-ANALYSIS
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TX 531 .S53 2013