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Mycotoxins, from the Greek "mukes" referring to fungi or slimemolds and toxin from the Latin "toxicum" referencing a poison forarrows, have earned their reputation for being potentially deleteriousto the health and well being of a consuming organism, whether it beanimal or human. Unfortunately, mycotoxins are a ubiquitous factor inthe natural life cycle of food producing plants. As such, control ofthe potential impact of mycotoxins on food safety relies heavily uponaccurate analysis and surveys followed by commodity segregation andrestricted use or decontamination through processing. The purpose ofthis book is to provide the most comprehensive and current informationon the topic of mycotoxins and assuring food safety. Chaptersrepresented in the book reflect such diverse topics ranging fromoccurrence and impact, analysis, reduction through processing andplant breeding, toxicology and safety assessments to regulatoryperspectives. Authors represent a range of international perspectives. ... Read more

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Clean Air at Work presents a clear summary of the state-of-the-art in assessment and measurement relating to occupational hygiene and indoor air quality. It identifies major areas of developing interest, draws conclusions about the topics discussed, predicts future needs and makes recommendations for further action. Clean Air at Work will be an essential acquisition for occupational hygienists, safety and environmental officers, analytical and environmental chemists, government officials and chief executives. ... Read more

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Learn how to improve the effectiveness of safety and health management systems by adopting ANSI Z10 provisions and avoid serious workplace injuries. This reference addresses specific provisions, including risk assessment methods and prioritization; applying a prescribed hierarchy of controls; implementing safety design reviews; and more. It also explains how to integrate best practices for the prevention of serious injuries in your workplace. See how implementing the ANSI Z10 standard can enhance your company’s productivity, cost efficiency, and quality. ... Read more

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The provision of safe food to airline passengers is now a multi-billion dollar industry worldwide. As the aviation industry continues to grow year on year, so do passenger food service expectations, with increasing demand for wider choice and greater quality. Often neglected and under-regulated, food safety should be of paramount importance amid this growth.

In this much needed book Erica Sheward makes a compelling case for better management of food safety for all aspects of the aircraft food supply chain. ... Read more

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Inherently safer plants begin with the initial design. Here is where integrity and reliability can be built in at the lowest cost, and with maximum effectiveness. This book focuses on process safety issues in the design of chemical, petrochemical, and hydrocarbon processing facilities. It discusses how to select designs that can prevent or mitigate the release of flammable or toxic materials, which could lead to a fire, explosion, or environmental damage. All engineers on the design team, the process hazard analysis team, and those who make basic decisions on plant design, will benefit from its comprehensive coverage, its organization, and the extensive references to literature, codes, and standards that accompany each chapter. ... Read more

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Food Safety Law Michael S. Schumann, Thomas D. Schneid, B. R. Schumann, and Michael J. Fagel Widely publicized food-related illnesses and deaths within the past few years focused public and political attention on the food industry. The most familiar foodborne bacteria, E. Coli and Salmonella, featured prominently in discussions regarding food safety. Today’s consumers also worry about pesticides, growth hormones, use of radiation, and contaminants or pathogens that lurk in the food. Food inspection, labeling, and food safety laws in the United States have been relatively untouched for ninety years. In 1996, major legal changes took place. Providing a safe food supply became one of the natoin’s highest priorities. No longer can food handlers, processors, packers, or direct service professionals continue doing business in the same manner. Food Safety Law provides extensive information on the USDA and the FDA, the primary agencies responsible for food safety. The book avoids the use of complicated legal and technical jargon by using easily understood language. This Timely Book Also Discusses

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A detailed and well researched examination of current food safety data. Covers food safety regulation, naturally occurring food toxicants, chemical additives and preservatives, food processing effects on nutritional quality, and more. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

Still Garbage.
Easy to read? Perhaps. Does this book have any business as a course text in a science doctoral degree plan? Absolutely not.Scientific? Certainly not.

A good, easy to read text dealing with food safety.
I chose this book as the text book for an introductory course in food toxicology and safety. It was chosen not only because it was the best valuefor its cost but because it was a down to earth and easy to read approachto the topic.Both the students and their parents could read and benefitfrom the book which is loaded with useful information.It should not beconfused with a serious food toxicology text or a text dealing with thebacterial nuances of food poisoning.However, it is a valuable book tohave on the shelf for general information, especially when dealing withlaymen.It contains a few mistakes that probably should have been caughtby careful proofreading [DES has been banned; and several of the valuesgiven in the chapter on food irradiation are wrong].Even so, this bookrepresents probably the most realistic and sane introduction to food safetycurrently on the market.

Garbage.
The text's weaknesses are many fold.First,toxicology is a field that examines deleterious effects of chemicals in living systems.The biological context is crucial, but the text badly lacks appreciation of it-both with respect to the eater, and with respect to pathogenic bugs. Similarly, though the text was apparently written for professionals, itshows a lack of toxicologic fundamentals throughout.For example,innumerable compounds are described as undigestible, but the concept (oreven word) of bioavailability is never addressed.The latter is a conceptthat is crucial for an understanding of food toxicology.

The trendthroughout the text is to catalog loosely related bits of information, witha very superficial basis of contributing knowledge.Mere cataloging,however, ignores fundamental conceptual relationships that are so importantto a rational understanding of the subject.Rationale is what rendersconcepts reasonable; without rationale, we would be unable to discriminatetruth from fallacy.Moreover, it is insufficient in science simply tostate THAT things happen; we must probe deeper, and examine HOW and whythings happen.A conspicuous example of this is in the text's coverage ofinfectious diarrhea.Certain enteric pathogens cause hemolytic uremicsyndrome (HUS) and thrombotic thromocytopenic purpurea (TTP).The diversemicrobes that cause these conditions do so with a highly conserved,plasmid-borne shiga toxin gene.The shiga-encoded cytotoxin crosses thegut epithelium, enters the bloodstream, and selectively damages tissuesresulting in microangiopathic hemolyses.But since these explanations andrelationships are ignored, the student is left to dumbly memorize a list ofbacteria that "do" and "don't" cause it.This is auseless pedagogical tool that permeates this book.This is notthinking.

In many cases of the book's incessant cataloging ofinformation, sight of a purposeful goal has been lost; as a result thereare many entries for food components that have no reference to toxicity orsafety anywhere.Is it necessary or within the scope of the course tospend time learning that a particular esoteric food additive exists, if itplays no important role in toxicology?

The text cites an unusual array ofreference sources.In particular, there are many included that list"Anonymous" in the author field.I am heretofore unfamiliar withanonymous references, but isn't it antithetical to scientific practice andaccountability for the truth?How can scientists replicate or falsify datain anonymous references?There are also numerous articles from newspapers,lay-magazines, trade books, and textbooks relied upon by the text forfactual scientific information.Conversely, there is a conspicuous lack ofpeer-reviewed publications and major reviews that would provide a solidfoundation for the text's purposes.There are several important articlesthat were published prior to the book and are within its scope, that aremysteriously ignored.

In a similar vein, the text's sensational approachis antithetical to a balanced coverage of science.Routinely, Jonesintersperses the text and ends chapters with wildly speculative assertionsand emotive comments.A scientist should regard this sort of subjectmatter with discipline, impartiality, and ultimate reverence for theauthority of good data.Thus, the exaggerations, assumptions,recommendations based on Miller's personal pontification are inappropriate. If an author wishes to discuss one's beliefs, a good place is in church-not a science book. ... Read more

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While presenting the latest scientific research on the major pathogens associated with meat, poultry, produce, and other foods, Pre-Harvest and Post-Harvest Food Safety: Contemporary Issues and Future Directions goes beyond other professional reference books by identifying the research needed to assure food safety in the future. The editors and authors not only review the current, cutting-edge literature in each of their areas, but provide insights and forward thinking into the development of new and innovative approaches and research strategies. Scientists and researchers from academia, government, and industry have collaborated to examine the high-priority food safety areas recognized by the federal government: pathogen/host interactions; ecology, distribution and spread of foodborne hazards; antibiotic resistance; verification tests; decontamination and prevention strategies; and risk analysis. A worthy new edition to the IFT Press series of food science and technology titles, Pre-Harvest and Post-Harvest Food Safety describes what we now know in food safety and provides a framework and focus for future research to improve diagnostic capabilities and intervention strategies for enteropathogens. ... Read more

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This book points out the safety and health concerns as well as the regulatory requirements for safe material handling. Many material handling venues are discussed from cranes to industrial robots. This diverse approach to material handling safety will be of interest to those who are responsible for safety or having material handling as a major component of their operation. ... Read more

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The causes of catastrophic accidents in the process industries, now recognized as complex and interrelated, need to be matched by multi-faceted technical management systems. These principles apply to companies of any size and to a full range of industries beyond the chemical industry, such as pulp and paper, electronics, oil and gas. This book supplements the systematic approach to process safety management set out in previous CCPS publications -- A CHALLENGE TO COMMITMENT, GUIDELINES FOR TECHNICAL MANAGEMENT OF CHEMICAL PROCESS SAFETY, and PLANT GUIDELINES FOR TECHNICAL MANAGEMENT OF CHEMICAL PROCESS SAFETY. ... Read more

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This new edition of the critically acclaimed Handbook of Laboratory Health and Safety was designed to help safety officers, laboratory managers, principal investigators, and laboratory workers bring lab health and safety into the twenty-first century. It does this by presenting a timely, complete, and easy-to-implement approach to ensuring a workplace that is safe for its workers as well as the surrounding community. Further, the handbook lays out guidelines to help laboratories comply with the requirements set by OSHA, the EPA, FDA, DOT, DEA, and other relevant regulatory agencies.

While the overall philosophy that made the first edition so successful has remained the same, the book has been extensively revised and updated to reflect all new regulations and technical advances that have occurred in the field over the past five years. In addition, this Second Edition now features a multitude of sample forms, checklists, protocols, and other valuable documents that will become an indispensable part of any laboratory health and safety management program.

A valuable reference tool for those seeking detailed information and guidance on specific safety and health issues, Handbook of Laboratory Health and Safety, Second Edition is also much more. By providing a set of clear, easy-to-follow guidelines that serve as a rational framework for creating site-specific health and safety requirements, it, in effect, arms laboratory managers with a solid foundation upon which to build—or reengineer—a comprehensive program for identifying, managing, and controlling health and safety hazards in the laboratory. All of the authors' recommended guidelines are clearly presented in the section entitled "Suggested Laboratory Health and Safety Guidelines." Each chapter of the handbook refers to the relevant sections of the Suggested Guidelines, explains the basis for the recommendations, and provides guidance on how to comply. Offering a feasible, easily implemented approach to designing and maintaining a safe workplace, Handbook of Laboratory Health and Safety is an indispensable tool for all those responsible for safeguarding the health and safety of lab workers and the residents of the ambient community.

"R. Scott Stricoff...and Douglas B. Walters...have assembled information from a variety of sources that is not easily available elsewhere....This is a useful book." — Chemical & Engineering News

"...provides a useful contribution and will be a welcome addition to the laboratory safety adviser's library....the authors' breadth of knowledge and expertise gives a genuine sense of authority to the information given." — Chemistry and Industry

"...useful for laboratory managers and safety officers who are in charge of the safety of workplaces, but it is also useful for laboratory architects and designers, supervisors, and others in charge of planning safe laboratories. Employees will also find information on the handling of toxic samples and chemicals....Although the book follows American standards and regulations, its interest may be considered worldwide. The book is especially useful in practical safety work because it explains thoroughly how to build a safe and pleasant laboratory and how to maintain its safety." — Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment and Health ... Read more

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Containing 80 data sheets on inflammable chemicals, this reference source aims to cover the chemical, physical and biological hazards likely to be encountered in the use of these compounds. The text also examines safe handling procedures, emergency precautions, disposal, transportation, labelling and the legislation concerning hazardous substances. Each compound described in the text gives the following information: chemical structure, safety precautions, threshold limit values, physical properties, packaging and transport, manufacture, uses, carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, reproductive hazards, first aid, fire precautions, handling and storage. ... Read more

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The international cosmetic industry is a highly self-regulated industry that provides quality products with a remarkable absence of toxicity. Specific European Union directives raise the need for quality in vitromethods to yet a new level. These directives will force new practices for safety evaluation of personal care products throughout the world in just a few years.Alternative Methodologies for the Safety Evaluation of Chemicals in the Cosmetic Industry presents a categorization and collection of information available for the evaluation of safety using in vitrotechniques. It offers a comprehensive and complete look at the entire field. In doing so, the author provides the foundation for the next phase of significant growth for this discipline.Readers will be able to find information easily throughout the book. The author uses outlines and tables to provide details in a ready format. He puts his unique expertise and insight to paper and offers a valuable and comprehensive look at the field.The book begins with an excellent history of the approach of the European Union. Because of Loprieno's intimate knowledge of the subject, the reader receives a solid understanding of the developments that resulted in legislation. Chapters are filled with important quotes, individual methods, how various aspects of the field were developed, and important crossroads in research. The book ends with an in-depth look at the Galileo Data Base.Alternative Methodologies for the Safety Evaluation of Chemicals in the Cosmetic Industry is extremely useful, not only now, but also as more advanced and significant developments occur during the next decade. It is a must-have resource for anyone interested in this field. ... Read more

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Many traditional routes to safer processes add complex layers--systems that must actively intervene, or that require special operating procedures to avert a catastrophe. Inherently safer concepts provide risk reduction as a built-in characteristic of the process. This book, which includes a foreword by internationally noted safety expert and the originator of the inherently safer concept Trevor Kletz, presents the principles and strategies for applying inherently safer thinking from the start of the life cycle to the very end. ... Read more

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Safety and Health Essentials is the leading introductory guide to industrial safety and health. Written by a team of specialist contributors, under the editorship of William Martin, the book covers all aspects of safety management and will be a companion to the more detailed treatment found in Industrial Safety & Hygiene Handbooks.

The book is most useful to small companies that do not have or cannot afford a full-time safety officer and to business managers and human resources staff who have responsibilities for health and safety issues in the workplace.The book will cover all the most recent developments in health and safety laws, standards, techniques, and practices.


Provides a leading introductory guide to industrial safety and health
Specialist contributors cover all aspects of safety management, including recent developments in the field
Offers an extremely useful tool to business managers and human resources staff with health and safety responsibilities, as well as to small companies that cannot afford a full-time safety officer ... Read more

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Presents concepts and principles underlying the safety assessment of foods and food ingredients produced via recombinant DNA techniques. Addresses issues of antibiotic resistance and potentially increased allergenicity. Discusses recent progress and current state of the art in the application of genetic engineering in the production of foods. Covers fundamental aspects of this promising area and describes some commercial applications which have entered or are about to enter the market. Outlines official viewpoints of government representatives from the United States, Europe, and Japan on creating a framework for regulatory oversight of genetically modified foods. ... Read more

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This book contains the Proceedings of the 10th International Syposium on Loss Prevention and Safety Promotion in the process industries. The main topics of the conference include;
optimisation of operations within the framework of safety, health and environment; safety, health, environment management and performance indicators; risk management experience; safety, health and environment in design and modification of processes and plants; hazardous substance/materials properties; storage and transport of dangerous goods by road, rail, water and pipeline; the prevention, protection and mitigation, and modelling of accidental releases; topics of safety and environment in specific process industries; the impact of legislation and industry initiatives; development of methodology, e.g. of risk assessment.
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Food safety is currently one of the most important issues confronting consumers, producers and distributors. It cannot be dealt with as just a physical problem but must be considered as a multi-dimensional one, affected by politics, economics and social influences. This book focuses on the specific example of food safety in the beef industry in the USA, Canada, the UK and Australia. It outlines the experience of a number of countries with food safety problems (such as BSE) and examines:drivers for change and institutional arrangements within the four countrieswhether there is a socially optimal approach to food safetyhow much consumers can rely on the industry to police itself and governments to look after their interestsIt also examines the implications for competitiveness and world trade. ... Read more