Overview
- Provides a thorough review of the most prevalent food hazards in the most common food categories
- Summarizes the current scientific understanding of the most common biological hazards by food commodity
- Provides an overview of the current regulations related to food safety in the USA
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Food Science Text Series (FSTS)
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About this book
 In this book, some of the most qualified scientists review different food safety topics, ranging from emerging and reemerging foodborne pathogens, food regulations in the USA, food risk analysis and the most important foodborne pathogens based on food commodities. This book provides the reader with the necessary knowledge to understand some of the complexities of food safety. However, anybody with basic knowledge in microbiology will find in this book additional information related to a variety of food safety topics.
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Microorganisms and Food Contamination
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Safety of Major Food Products
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Risk analysis, interventions and regulations
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Microbial Food Safety
Book Subtitle: An Introduction
Editors: Omar A. Oyarzabal, Steffen Backert
Series Title: Food Science Text Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1177-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-1176-5Published: 02 December 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-3954-1Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-1177-2Published: 03 December 2011
Series ISSN: 1572-0330
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7799
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 262
Topics: Food Science, Applied Microbiology, Microbiology, Agriculture