Food Safety A Reference Handbook

Explores how changing dietary practices as well as farming and processing techniques challenge food safety, and how individuals, governments, and industry are responding Covers new food safety threats including bioterrorism, avian flu, mercury poisoning, and acrylamides, as well as pesticides, genetically modified foods, and irradiation Examines ten of the most common causes of food-borne illness, noting symptoms, health consequences, numbers of people affected, and mechanism of disease transferRedman, Nina E. is the author of 'Food Safety A Reference Handbook', published 2007 under ISBN 9781598840483 and ISBN 1598840487.