Food Forensics and Toxicology

<p><b>A comprehensive guide, offering a toxicological approach to food forensics, that reviews the legal, economic, and biological issues of food fraud</b></p> <p><i>Food Forensics and Toxicology</i> offers an introduction and examination of forensics as applied to food and foodstuffs. The author puts the focus on food adulteration and food fraud investigation. The text combines the legal/economic issues of food fraud with the biological and health impacts of consuming adulterated food. Comprehensive in scope, the book covers a wide-range of topics including food adulteration/fraud, food “fingerprinting” and traceability, food toxicants in the body, and the accidental or deliberate introduction of toxicants into food products.</p> <p>In addition, the author includes information on the myriad types of toxicants from a range of food sources and explores the measures used to identify and quantify their toxicity. This book is designed to be a valuable reference source for laboratories, food companies, regulatory bodies, and researchers who are dealing with food adulteration, food fraud, foodborne illness, micro-organisms, and related topics.<i> Food Forensics and Toxicology</i> is the must-have guide that:</p> <ul> <li>Takes a comprehensive toxicological approach to food forensics</li> <li>Combines the legal/economic issue of food fraud with the biological/health impacts of consuming adulterated food in one volume</li> <li>Discusses a wide range of toxicants (from foods based on plants, animals, aquatic and other sources)</li> <li>Provides an analytical approach that details a number of approaches and the optimum means of measuring toxicity in foodstuffs </li> </ul> <p><i>Food Forensics and Toxicology</i> gives professionals in the field a comprehensive resource that joins information on the legal/economic issues of food fraud with the biological and health implications of adulterated food.</p>