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Food safety : the science of keeping food safe / Ian C. Shaw

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Jersey : Wiley-Blackwell, c2013Description: xi, 428 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781444337228
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • TX 531 .S53 2013
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Main General Circulation Hospitality Management GC TX 531 .S53 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000001844

Includes index.

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.

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.

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