Food safety contaminants and toxins / [electronic resource] : edited by J.P.F. D'Mello. - Oxford, OX ; Cambridge, MA : CABI Pub., c2003. - xvi, 452 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Plant toxins and human health / Bacterial pathogens and toxins in foodborne disease / Shellfish toxins / Mycotoxins in cereal grains, nuts, and other plant products / Pesticides: toxicology and residues in food and wine / Polychlorinated biphenyls / Dioxins in milk, meat, eggs and fish / Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in diverse foods / Heavy metals / Dietary nitrates, nitrites and N-nitroso compounds and cancer risk with special emphasis on the epidemiological evidence / Adverse reactions to food additives / Migration of compounds from food contact materials and articles / Veterinary products: residues and resistant pathogens / Prion diseases: meat safety and human health implications / The safety evaluation of genetically modified foods / Genetically modified foods: potential human health effects / Radionuclides in food: the post-Chernobyl evidence / Radionuclides in foods: American perspectives / E.J. Baratta -- Widespread and continuing concerns over food safety -- J.P.F. D'Mello. P.S. Spencer, F. Berman -- E.A. Johnson -- A. Gago Martinez and J.F. Lawrence -- J.P.F. D'Mello -- P. Cabras -- D.L. Arnold and M. Feeley -- H. Fiedler -- M.D. Guillen and P. Sopelana -- L. Jorhem -- M. Eichholzer and F. Gutzwiller -- R.A. Simon and H. Ishiwata -- J.H. Petersen -- J.C. Paige and L. Tollefson -- N. Hunter -- M.J Gasson -- A. Pusztai, S. Bardocz and S.W.B. Ewen -- J.T. Smith and N.A. Beresford --


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Food--Safety measures.
Food--Toxicology.


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