1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462300503321

Autore

Shaw Ian <1950->

Titolo

Food safety [[electronic resource] ] : the science of keeping food safe / / Ian Shaw

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, c2013

ISBN

1-118-40221-9

1-118-40220-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (450 p.)

Disciplina

363.19/26

Soggetti

Food - Analysis

Food contamination

Food - Safety measures

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Food Safety: The Science of Keeping Food Safe; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; A brief history of food safety; Prehistoric times; Evolution of cellular protection mechanisms; Tudor England (1485-1603); The times of King George III of England (1760-1820); The 1800's - Pasteur's Germ Theory, Lister's antiseptics and the first refrigerators; The influence of religion on food safety; The impact of space travel on food safety; 2 Food Risk; Introduction; What is risk?; The factors that contribute to risk; Measuring hazard; Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI)

Maximum Residue Level (MRL) and Maximum Limit (ML)Tolerable Daily Intake (TDI) and Tolerable Weekly Intake (TWI); Determining risk; Zero risk; Risk assessment for a Dundee cake; Acceptable risk; Smoking - an acceptable risk?; Toxic fugu sashimi - tasty, but potentially lethal; Risk versus benefit; Risk perception; The precautionary principle; Food risk assessment; Relative risk and risk ranking; Risk management; Risk communication; Quantitative risk assessment; Regulatory committees; Food risk assessment - case examples; Determining exposure; Dietary surveys; Total diet surveys

Food surveillance Decision-making/advisory process; Take home



messages; Further reading; 3 Bacteria; Introduction; The discovery of bacteria; The biology of bacteria; The bacterial cell wall and Gram's stain; The bacterial ecology of food; Human bacterial pathogens on food; Gastroenteritis; Food-borne pathogenic bacteria; Aeromonas; Bacillus; Brucella; Campylobacter; Clostridium; Clostridium perfringens; Escherichia; Listeria; Salmonella; Shigella; Staphylococcus; Streptococcus/Enterococcus; Vibrio; Yersinia; Take home messages; Further reading; 4 Viruses; Introduction

The discovery of viruses The biology of viruses; Diseases caused by viruses and mechanisms of viral transmission; Norovirus; Hepatitis; Bacteriophages; Other food-borne viruses; Take home messages; Further reading; 5 Parasites; Introduction; What are parasites?; Flatworms - Platyhelminthes; Tapeworms - Cestodes; Anatomy of a tapeworm; Fish tapeworms - Diphyllobothrium sp.; Beef tapeworm - Taenia sagitata; Pork tapeworm - Taenia solium; Flukes - Trematodes; Anatomy of flukes; Liver fluke - Fasciola hepatica; Nematodes; Anatomy of nematodes; Food-borne nematodes that affect humans; Protozoa

Amoebae Cryptosporidium; Giardia; Sarcocystis; Toxoplasma; Take home messages; Further reading; 6 Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE); Introduction; The history of BSE; The epidemiology of BSE in England; Spongiform encephalopathies; Prions; The symptoms of BSE; BSE cases in the UK; BSE transmission and the origins of PrPSC; The risk to human consumers of BSE beef - nvCJD; A case of nvCJD; BSE risk to human consumers and risk management; The politics of BSE and implications for food safety worldwide; BSE incidence around the world; Take home messages; Further reading

7 Chemical Contaminants



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788153603321

Autore

Navarro Armando <1941->

Titolo

Mexicano and Latino politics and the quest for self-determination : what needs to be done / / Armando Navarro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-4985-0098-6

0-7391-9736-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (605 pages)

Disciplina

973/.046872

Soggetti

Mexican Americans - Politics and government

Hispanic Americans - Politics and government

Mexican Americans - Ethnic identity

Hispanic Americans - Ethnic identity

Aztlán

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Mexicanos political experience in Aztlán : a historical narrative of a conquered, occupied, and colonized people -- Re-Mexicanización of Aztlán and Latinoiziación or "browning" of the United States -- Mexicanos and Latinos in the United States in the twenty-first century : under a state of siege and state of crisis -- Profile of internal colonial Mexicano/Latino politics : a people in a leadership, organizational, and electoral crisis -- 2013 Latino immigration reform debacle -- Triad crisis : country, world, and global capitalism in turmoil -- Aztlán's politics of a nation-within-a-nation : quest for self-determination and reform -- Global secessionist contagion : the politics of separatism -- Aztlán's Mexicano historical antecedents of separatism : struggles for self-determination -- Aztlán's polit.



3.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00289297

Autore

STAIGER, Emil

Titolo

Goethe. 1.: 1749-1786 / Emil Staiger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Zürich; Freiburg, : Atlantis Verlag, 1952

Descrizione fisica

567 p. ; 22 cm.

Disciplina

830.09

Soggetti

Goethe Johann Wolfgang Von

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia