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Record Nr.

UNINA9911004858103321

Autore

Stringer M

Titolo

Chilled foods [[electronic resource] ] : A comprehensive guide

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Woodhead Publishing Limited, 2014

ISBN

1-280-37236-2

9786610372362

1-59124-034-4

1-85573-629-2

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (503 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DennisC

Disciplina

664.02852

Soggetti

Cold storage

Refrigerated foods

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Preliminaries""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction the chilled foods market""; ""1 Raw material selection: fruit and vegetables""; ""2 Raw material selection dairy ingredients""; ""3 Raw material selection meat and poultry""; ""5 Temperature monitoring and measurement""; ""6 Chilled food packaging""; ""7 Chilled foods microbiology""; ""8 Conventional and rapid analytical microbiology""; ""9 Non-microbial factors affecting quality and safety""; ""10 Shelf-life determination and challenge testing""; ""11 Microbiological hazards and safe process design""

""12 Quality and consumer acceptability""""13 The hygienic design of chilled foods plant""; ""14 Cleaning and disinfection""; ""15 Total quality management""; ""16 Legislation""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

The first edition of Chilled foods quickly established itself as the standard guide to quality issues in one of the most rapidly growing sectors in the food industry. This major new edition is set to consolidate and extend that reputation. This new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated and includes three new chapters on the subject of raw material selection. This book provides a comprehensive guide to all the factors involved in providing the consumer with safe, high quality products. Since the publication of the first edition of



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