Overview
Chemical Food Safety: A Scientist's Perspective introduces readers to the science of risk assessment as applied to food safety and offers relevant, current information on research and statistics, chemicals, biotechnology issues, and emerging diseases that challenge the risk assessment strategies of toxicology and microbiology. Riviere investigates the potential health consequences of pesticides, food additives and drugs, demonstrating how science can be applied to make risk assessments. He differentiates between “real risks” and “phantom risks,” unearthing numerous fallacies in the public perception of risk assessment and evidence of people’s intolerance to certain types of risks—no matter how remote. Chemical Food Safety is based on credible, scientifically correct data rather than irrational fears propagated by media coverage concerning food safety. The book explores these riveting topics: *food security and the world of bioterrorism, *toxicity of natural compounds and artificial additives in foods, *the toxicology of pesticides in food, *issues of biotechnology and genetically modified food, *other compelling issues in chemical food safety.With its focus on how the results of toxicology are applied in the real world, Chemical Food Safety: A Scientist’s Perspective will be a valuable addition to the libraries of food scientists, dieticians, animal producers, veterinarians and anyone else with a professional or personal interest in risk assessment, toxicology, epidemiology or food safety.
Full Product Details
Author: Jim E. Riviere
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:
Width: 16.00cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.435kg
ISBN: 9780813802541
ISBN 10: 0813802547
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 11 July 2002
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
This easy-to-read book focuses on how toxicology data is orshould be applied to the real world of food safety. Overall, thisbook provides the reader with a concise overview of the subject ofchemical food safety, comparing real risks with perceived risks, and unearthing numerous myths and people's intolerance to certaintypes of risk. It highlights the role of the scientist ortoxicologist in providing a professional perspective to help thepublic differentiate risk. It certainly makes you think! BTS (British Toxilogical Society) Newsletter 2004
"""This easy-to-read book focuses on how toxicology data is or should be applied to the real world of food safety. Overall, this book provides the reader with a concise overview of the subject of chemical food safety, comparing real risks with perceived risks, and unearthing numerous myths and people's intolerance to certain types of risk. It highlights the role of the scientist or toxicologist in providing a professional perspective to help the public differentiate risk. It certainly makes you think!"" BTS (British Toxilogical Society) Newsletter 2004"
Author Information
Jim E. Riviere, D.V.M., Ph.D. is the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Distinguished Professor of Veterinary Pharmacology and Director, Center for Chemical Toxicology Research and Pharmacokinetics, Department of Population Health and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N.C.
