Seafood Safety and Quality

Seafood Safety and Quality is a comprehensive resource on seafood-borne diseases, safety issues, and responsible etiologic agents, written in a simple manner to promote the scientific community's efforts to deliver safe seafood for better health and environment.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 322 pages
Publication date: 31 March 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Seafood safety and quality remain a significant public health concern, with its importance reaching unprecedented levels in recent years. This comprehensive book delves into the examination of major seafood-borne diseases, as well as the critical safety issues associated with seafood consumption. Additionally, it explores emerging microbial agents, fish toxins, and other contaminants, including heavy metals, allergies, water safety, and related topics. The book also addresses the challenges faced by both developed and developing countries in ensuring seafood safety across various sectors, such as new seafood products and processing technologies, seafood trade, safety of foods derived from biotechnology, microbiological risks, emergence of new and antibiotic-resistant pathogens, particularly from emerging sources, prioritizing research in high-risk areas, implementing targeted interventions, and establishing target risk levels and target diseases or pathogens. Serving as a comprehensive resource, the book provides detailed information on seafood-borne diseases and a wide range of responsible etiologic agents, including bacteria, viruses, parasites, seafood toxins, and environmental toxins. Written in a straightforward and accessible manner, it aims to foster the efforts of the scientific community to deliver safe seafood for improved health and environmental well-being.

Weight: 612g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367780852