Environmental Contaminants in Food

This volume considers activities devoted to ensuring that the input of contaminants from the environment is minimised. Chapters deal with methods of modern instrumental analysis, with a wide range of contaminants, with risk assessment, and with sensory assessment and tainting.

Spis treści:
Introduction; Gas chromatography and mass spectroscopy; Instrumentation and applications of HPLC for the analysis of food contaminants; Advances in immunochemical methods of analysis for food; Radioactivity in food; Trace metal contaminants in food; Pesticides; Veterinary drugs including antibiotics; Polychlorinated biphenyls, dioxins and other polyhalogenated hydrocarbons; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, petroleum and other hydrocarbon contaminants; Tainting of food by chemical contaminants; Risk assessment of environmental contaminants in; Safety standards for food contaminants; References; Index.

Okładka tylna:
This volume considers activities devoted to ensuring that the input of contaminants from the environment is minimised. Chapters deal with methods of modern instrumental analysis, with a wide range of contaminants, with risk assessment, and with sensory assessment and tainting.