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Food contaminants: Sources and surveillance

Edited by C Creaser, University of East England and R Purchase, British Industrial Biological Research Association, UK

Woodhead Publishing Series in Food Science, Technology and Nutrition No. 6

This book contains contributions based on the proceedings of two symposia on food contamination held in London in April 1989 and May 1990, both of which were organised jointly by the Environment, Food Chemistry and Toxicology Groups of the Royal Society of Chemistry. The aim of these meetings was to assess the extraneous chemical contamination of food from two sources: firstly, food-chain contaminants - the presence of plant toxicants of fungal metabolites in food, or the contamination of food from environmental sources (airborne, aquatic and terrestrial); and secondly, food-production contaminants - contaminants of man-made origin brought about by a desire to facilitate food production and distribution. The contributors concentrate on the contamination of food by chemicals arising from environmental and food-production sources. Chapter 1 is concerned with food-chain contaminants present in food as natural components of the diet. This is followed by discussion of the chlorinated dioxins and furans, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Following an introduction to the control and surveillance of food-production contaminants, four areas of activity are described: migration from food contact materials with particular reference to plastics, the analysis and regulatory control of veterinary products, the analysis of pesticides in drinking water and finally the problem of food taints.

ISBN 1 85573 784 1
ISBN-13: 978 1 85573 784 6
October 1991
204 pages  234 x 156mm  hardback  
£145.00 / US$245.00 / €175.00

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Contents

Natural toxicants in food
Jenny A. Lewis and G. Roger Fenwick

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in food
James R. Startin

Analysis and occurrence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in food
Keith D. Bartle

Food production contaminants: Control and surveillance
Jonathan R. Bell and David H. Watson

Toxicology and regulatory control of components of food contact plastics
Rupert Purchase

Contaminants from food contact materials: Analytical aspects
John Gilbert

Use and regulatory control of veterinary drugs in food production
Kevin N. Woodward

Analysis of pesticides at low levels in drinking water
Keith M. Moore

Unwanted flavours in foods
J. David Henshall