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Food Safety and Preservation
1st Edition
Modern Biological Approaches to Improving Consumer Health
Editors:
Alexandru Grumezescu
Alina Maria Holban
eBook ISBN: 9780128149577
Paperback ISBN: 9780128149560
Imprint: Academic Press
Published Date: 27th April 2018
Page Count: 696
Description
Food Safety and Preservation: Modern Biological Approaches to Improving Consumer Health explores the most recent and investigated hot topics in food safety, microbial contamination, food-borne diseases and advanced preservation methods. It brings together the significant, evidence-based scientific progress of various approaches to improve the safety and quality of foods, also offering solutions to help address food industry challenges. Recent studies and technological advancements in biological control are presented to control foodborne pathogens. In addition, analytical methods for reducing potential biological hazards make this book essential to researchers, scientists, technologists and grad students.
Key Features
- Covers all aspects of food contamination, from food degradation, to food-borne diseases
- Examines validated, biological control approaches to reduce microbial and chemical contamination
- Includes detailed discussions of risk and safety assessments in food preservation
Readership
Researchers/academics/students in the fields of food science, safety, food microbiology, food biochemistry/chemistry
Table of Contents
Section 1: Advanced tools in food safety and hazard detection
1. A Critical Appraisal on Different Food Safety and Quality Management Tools to Accomplish Food Safety
Siva Kumar Korada, Nagendra Sastry Yarla, Swathi Putta, Avinash Saab Hanumakonda, Dhananjaya Bhadrapura Lakkappa, Anupam Bishayee, Luciana Scotti, Marcus T. Scotti, Gjumrakch Aliev, Mohammad A. Kamal, Da-Yong Lu, Mukerrem Betul Yerer Aycan, Raffaella Reggi, Maura Palmery, Ghulam Ashraf, Thonas Alexiou, Ilaria Peluso
2. Food Safety: Benefits of Contamination Control in Consumers Health
Muhammad Atif Randhawa, Ali Asghar, Muhammad Nadeem, Naveed Ahmad and Sidrah
3. Preemptive and Proactive strategies for Food Control and Biosecurity
Ali Talha Khalil, Irum Iqrar, Samina Bashir, Muhammad Ali, Ali Hamza Khalil, Zabta Khan Shinwari
4. Validation of Analytical Methods for the Assessment of Hazards in Food
Sibel A. Özkan, Sevinc Kurbanoglu, Bengi Uslu
5. The Assay of Pesticide in Foods Using Electrochemical Sensors
Sibel A. Özkan, Nurgul K. Bakirhan, Bengi Uslu
6. Multiway Calibration Approaches for Quality Control of Food Samples
Romina Brasca, Héctor C. Goicoechea and María J. Culzoni
7. Biocontrol as Efficient Tool for Food Control and Biosecurity
K. Nathiely Ramírez-Guzmán, Cristian Torres-León, Eduardo Martínez-Terrazas, Reynaldo De la cruz-Quiroz, Adriana C. Flores-Gallegos, Raúl Rodríguez-Herrera and Cristóbal N. Aguilar
Section 2: Microbial contamination and emerging food-borne diseases
8. Foodborne Diseases and Responsible Agents
Md. Latiful Bari and Sabina Yeasmin
9. Challenges in Emerging Food-borne Diseases
Nelluri Kanaka Durga Devi* and Navya Sree Thota
10. Opportunistic Foodborne Pathogens
Vincenzina Fusco, Hikmate Abriouel, Nabil Benomar, Jan Kabisch, Daniele C
Details
- No. of pages:
- 696
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- © Academic Press 2018
- Published:
- 27th April 2018
- Imprint:
- Academic Press
- eBook ISBN:
- 9780128149577
- Paperback ISBN:
- 9780128149560
About the Editor
Alexandru Grumezescu
Dr. Grumezescu is Assistant Professor at the Department of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, in the Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, with a second affiliation to the Faculty of Medical Engineering, at the Politehnica University of Bucharest in Romania. He is an experienced and oft-published researcher and editor in the field of nano and biomaterials, and he is the Editor-in-Chief of three journals: Biointerface Research in Applied Chemistry, Letters and Applied NanoBioScience, and Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Bulletin. He also serves as editor or guest editor for several notable journals. Dr. Grumezescu has published 150 peer-reviewed papers, 20 book chapters, 6 co-authored books and 11 edited books.
Affiliations and Expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science and Faculty of Medical Engineering, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania
Alina Maria Holban
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest; Department of Science and Engineering of Oxidic Materials and Nanomaterials, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest
Qualifications and Experience: Assistant Professor – General Microbiology, Medical microbiology, Immunology, Immunopathology
Book Editor: Nanoarchitectonics for Smart Delivery and Drug Targeting (Elsevier) - in press - 2016
Assistant Editor - Letters in Applied NanoBioScience (http://nanobioletters.com/)
Guest Editor - Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology (Bentham Science - Impact Factor 2014 = 2.511)
The contribution of Dr Holban on her research field is supported by the publication of 48 papers in peer-reviewed journals (35 in Web of Science / ISI indexed journals indexed journals), 34 conference/symposia proceedings (posters and oral presentations, from which 24 were presented in International scientific meetings), 1 book, 5 book chapters in international books and 2 GenBank original sequences (patents). More than 30 of the published papers are investigating the applications of nanomaterials on biomedical fields, focusing on their antimicrobial effect.
Affiliations and Expertise
Microbiology Department, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
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