Foodborne Disease & Food SafetyAbstract: A reference text for medical students, practicing physicians and food science and technology investigators reviews and summarizes various aspects of foodborne disease diseases food safety. Discussions on foodborne diseases deal with the surveillance, epidemiology, and diagnosis of such diseases that represent significant US public health concerns. Discussions of food safety focus on food additives, including both unintentional (pesticides, animal drugs, food chemicals chemcals) and intentional substances added to foods. Topics on food safety include the role of food additives in food processing, production, packaging, storage and distribution; food safety laws, regulations, monitoring; quality control methods used by food producers to ensure microbiological quality; how food additive safety is assessed; human illness incidents from approved food additives. Information on the functions of direct food additives, GRAS substances, and on related foodborne disease topics is appended. (wz). |
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