edited by Victor R. Preedy

Features:

• Assembles the latest research on current issues in food safety and food technology
• Includes contributions from the fields of medicine, public health, and environmental science
• Covers a wide range of food and nutritional topics

Reviews in Food and Nutrition Toxicity, Volume 1 brings together dozens of reviews, providing a clear understanding of the most current issues involved in food and nutrition toxicity.

This important new series distills a broad range of research on food safety and food technology into one annual volume. Discusses the toxicity of herbal beverages, the use of phytoestrogens in the prevention of hormonal cancers, allergens in food, dietary phosphorus as a nutritional toxin, and more. Each chapter focuses on a particular subject, presenting the latest scientific data and detailed information.

Contents

1. Toxicity of Herbal Beverages
2. Arsenic in Vegetables
3. Cyanogenic Compounds in Cassava and Exposure to Cyanide
4. Phytoestrogens in the Prevention and Prognosis of Female Hormonal Cancers
5. Dietary Retinol as a Toxic Substance
6. Rhabdomyolysis and Dietary Supplements
7. Allergens in Food
8. Dietary Phosphorous as a Nutritional Toxin: Importance of Age and Sex
9. Metals in Wine
10. Toxic Considerations Related to Ingestion of Carraeenan
11. Interpreting and Communicating Health and Risk Information on Chemicals in Breast Milk: DDT as a Case Study
12. Parenteral Nutrition as a Source of Toxicity
13. Safety of Probiotic Bacteria
14. Dietary Alcohol and Xenobiotics
15. Dietary Factors Influencing Apoptosis in the Intestine
16. Free Radicals as Toxic Agents: Nutritional Aspects
17. Ethylene Oxide in the Food Supply: An Assessment of Health Risk
18. Dietary Patulin and its Effects
19. Pesticide Residues in Food

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