Is it Safe to Eat? (eBook)

Enjoy Eating and Minimize Food Risks

Ian Shaw (Autor)

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2005 | 2005
XI, 251 Seiten
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-540-27003-4 (ISBN)

Infos

'Is It Safe to Eat?' clearly and carefully examines and clarifies the sometimes bewildering issues that we all can master so we can adjust our behavior to lead healthier, less anxiety-ridden lives.

Noted food expert and author, Ian Shaw, also places the risks of food, food-born pathogens and food contaminants into the context of life's overall risks.

His easily understandable, passionate, yet authoritative and informative book helps you get a handle on the key issues such as GM food, cancer-causing agents and agrochemicals, natural toxins, BSE, E. coli, and more.

Shaw makes the case that enjoyment of food and eating is a benefit that far outweighs the risks, at least if everyone is aware of those risks and takes sensible measures to minimize them.

Inhalt

Preface 5
Contents 7
Acknowledgements 8
1 Food Safety Through the Ages 11
2 Food is Just One of Life’s Risks 31
3 Bacteria in Food – Good or Bad? 56
4 Viruses 84
5 Mad Cow Disease and the Elusive Prion 101
6 Natural Toxins in Food 124
7 Agrochemical Residues in Food 151
8 Gender Bending Chemicals in Food 192
9 Genetically Modified Food 210
10 Is it Safe to Eat? 225
Subject Index 233

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.12.2005
• Zusatzinfo: XI, 251 p. 55 illus.
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: amines • Cancer • Food Safety • lead • Nutrition • Toxicology • Toxin
• ISBN-10: 3-540-27003-5 / 3540270035
• ISBN-13: 978-3-540-27003-4 / 9783540270034