Food Safety: Basic Concepts, Recent Issues, and Future Challenges

✍ Scribed by Jinap Selamat, Shahzad Zafar Iqbal

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing Switzerland
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 164
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is designed to integrate the basic concepts of food safety with current developments and challenges in food safety and authentication. The first part describes basics of food safety, classification of food toxins, regulation and risk assessment. The second part focuses on particular toxins like mycotoxins, aromatic amines, heavy metals, pesticides, and polycyclic hydrocarbons. Recent developments and improvements in the detection of these contaminants are described. The third part deals with the authenticity and adulteration of food and food products, a topic which affects food trade on a national and international level.

✦ Table of Contents

Part I Food Safety
Food Safety Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Peter Raspor, Mojca Jevsˇnik, and Mateja Ambrožicˇ
Regulations for Food Toxins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Muhammad Alim, Shahzad Zafar Iqbal, Jinap Selamat, and Agustin Ari~no
Part II Chemical Food Contaminants
Safe Food Production with Minimum and Judicious Use
of Pesticides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Christos A. Damalas
Toxic Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Parvaneh Hajeb, Shahram Shakibazadeh, and Jens J. Sloth
Heterocyclic Amines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Amna Sahar, Ubaid ur Rahman, Muhammad Issa Khan,
and Muhammad Azam Khan
Mycotoxins in Food and Food Products: Current Status . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Shahzad Zafar Iqbal, Jinap Selamat, and Agustin Ari~no
Part III Future Challenges
Food Adulteration and Authenticity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
M. Kamruzzaman
Climate Change and Food Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
M. Herrera, R. Anado´n, Shahzad Zafar Iqbal, J.D. Bailly, and Agustin Ari~no