TY - BOOK AU - Shaw, Ian C. TI - Food safety: the science of keeping food safe SN - 9781444337228 AV - TX 531 .S53 2013 PY - 2013/// CY - New Jersey PB - Wiley-Blackwell KW - FOOD-ANALYSIS KW - FOOD CONTAMINATION N1 - Includes index; 1 Introduction -- 2 Food Risk -- 3 Bacteria -- 4 Viruses -- 5 Parasites -- 6 Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) -- 7 Chemical Contaminants -- 8 Natural Toxins -- 9 Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals -- 10 Genetically Modified Food -- 11 Colours, Flavours and Preservatives -- 12 Food Irradiation -- 13 Food Safety and the Unborn Child -- 14 Organic Food -- 15 Food Allergy -- 16 Food Legislation N2 - Food safety is a modern concept. Remarkably, it is only in the last 200 years that such concepts as foodborne germs, and the means of combating them (such as antiseptics and refrigeration), have been popularised ER -