Residue Reviews Residues of Pesticides and Other Foreign Chemicals in Foods and Feeds / Rückstands-Berichte Rückstände Von Pesticiden Und Anderen Frem

ISBN-13: 9781461584063 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 201 str.

Francis A. Gunther

Opis

That residues of pestieide and other "foreign" chemieals in foodstuffs are of eoneern to everyone everywhere is amply attested by the reeeption aeeorded previous volumes of "Residue Reviews" and by the gratifying enthusiasm, sineerity, and efforts shown by all the individuals from whom manuseripts have been solieited. Despite much propaganda to the eontrary, there ean never be any serious question that pest-eontrol chemieals and food- additive chemieals are essential to adequate food produetion, manufaeture, marketing, and storage, yet without eontinuing surveillanee and intelligent eontrol some of those that persist in our foodstuffs eould at times eoneeivably endanger the publie health. Ensuring safety-in-use of these many chemieals is adynamie challenge, for established ones are eontinually being displaeed by newly developed ones more aeeeptable to food technologists, pharma- eologists, toxieologists, and changing pest-eontrol requirements in progressive food-produeing eeonomies. These matters are also of genuine eoneern to inereasing numbers of governmental ageneies and legislative bodies around the world, for some of these chemieals have resulted in a few mishaps from improper use. Adequate safety-in-use evaluations of any of these chemie als persisting into our food- stuffs are not simple matters, and they ineorporate the eonsidered judgments of many individuals highly trained in a variety of eomplex biologieal, chemieal, food technologieal, medieal, pharmaeologieal, and toxieologieal diseiplines.

Spis treści

The analytical determination of strontium-90 in foods.- Use of ion-exchange resins in residue analysis.- Determination of organophosphorus insecticide residues using Cooke’s emission spectroscopic detector.- Inhibition vs. excessive use of vitamin K and other nutrients for the control of carpet beetles.- Antibiotics in foods — naturally occuring, developed, and added.- Anwendung und Eigenschaften des 3-Amino-l,2,4-triazols im Hinblick auf seine Rückstände in Lebensmitteln.

O autorze

Francis Alan Gunther served the University of California for the whole of his professional life. He spent a career of 44 years as a leader in the development of analytical methods for pesticide residues and in the determination of the physical and chemical fates of pesticides and related chemical residues in the environment. While so doing, he developed and directed what was indeed a national and international center of research on these subjects.

Blurb

That residues of pesticide and other "foreign" chemicals in food­ stuffs are of concern to everyone everywhere is amply attested by the reception accorded previous volumes of "Residue Reviews" and by the gratifying enthusiasm, sincerity, and efforts shown by all the in­dividuals from whom manuscripts have been solicited. Despite much propaganda to the contrary, there can never be any serious question that pest-control chemicals and food-additive chemicals are essential to adequate food production, manufacture, marketing, and storage, yet without continuing surveillance and intelligent control some of those that persist in our foodstuffs could at times conceivably endanger the public health. Ensuring safety-in-use of these many chemicals is a dynamic challenge, for established ones are continually being dis­placed by newly developed ones more acceptable to food tech­nologists, pharmacologists, toxicologists, and changing pest-control requirements in progressive food-producing economies. These matters are of genuine concern to increasing numbers of governmental agencies and legislative bodies around the world, for some of these chemicals have resulted in a few mishaps from improper use. Adequate safety-in-use evaluations of any of these chemicals per­sisting into our foodstuffs are not simple matters, and they incorporate the considered judgments of many individuals highly trained in a variety of complex biological, chemical, food technological, medical, pharmacological, and toxicological disciplines.