Chemical food safety / Leon Brimer.

Preventing contamination with problematic chemical compounds in food requires an understanding of how they can enter and pass along the food production and processing chain, as well as relevant issues in toxicology and risk management. This book covers the basic and applied science needed to underst...

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Main Author: Brimer, Leon
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire ; Cambridge, MA : CABI, ©2011.
Series:Modular texts.
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Summary:Preventing contamination with problematic chemical compounds in food requires an understanding of how they can enter and pass along the food production and processing chain, as well as relevant issues in toxicology and risk management. This book covers the basic and applied science needed to understand, analyse and take professional action on problems and questions concerning chemical food safety that call for interventions on a local, regional, national or international level. Risk assessment is explained in the context of targeted future risk management and risk communication.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 287 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781845937874
1845937872
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.