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Preharvest and postharvest food safety: contemporary issues and future directions.

Author(s) : BEIER R. C., PILLAI S. D., PHILLIPS T. D., et al.

Type of monograph: Book

Summary

This book, published in the IFT (Institute of Food Technologists) Press series, describes what we know today in food safety and provides a focus for the future. It presents the latest scientific research on the major pathogens associated with meat, poultry, produce, and other foods, and goes beyond other professional reference books by identifying the research needed to assure food safety in the future. Extract from the table of contents: pathogen/host interactions; ecology, distribution, and spread of foodborne hazards; antimicrobial resistance; verification tests (the hazard analysis and critical control point system and importance of verification procedures; molecular methods for microbial detection; methods for differentiation among bacterial foodborne pathogens); decontamination and prevention strategies (chemical methods for decontamination of meat and poultry; decontamination systems; control of Listeria monocytogenes in ready-to-eat foods; food irradiation); risk analysis (food safety risk communication and consumer food-handling behaviour; addressing microbial food safety issues quantitatively; how to manage risk: the way forward).

Details

  • Original title: Preharvest and postharvest food safety: contemporary issues and future directions.
  • Record ID : 2005-0499
  • Languages: English
  • Subject: Environment
  • Publication: Blackwell - United kingdom/United kingdom
  • Publication date: 2004
  • ISBN: 9780813808840
  • Source: Source: ed. 2; 480 p. (18.5 x 26); fig.; tabl.; ref.; index; GBP 75.
  • Document available for consultation in the library of the IIR headquarters only.

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