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Foodborne Infections and Intoxications.
The accelerated globalization of the food supply, coupled with toughening government standards, is putting global food production, distribution, and retail industries under a high-intensity spotlight. High publicity cases about foodborne illnesses over recent years have heightened public awareness o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Diego :
Elsevier Science,
2013.
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| Edición: | 4th ed. |
| Colección: | Food science and technology (Academic Press)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Foodborne Infections and Intoxications; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Preface to the Third Edition; Dedication; 1. Foodborne Disease: Epidemiology and Disease Burden; 1 Estimates of Disease Burden Associated with Contaminated Food in the United States and Globally; Introduction; Estimates of foodborne disease in the United States; Major known pathogens; Estimating illness using the "burden-of-illness pyramid"; Alternative approaches to estimating illnesses; Estimating hospitalizations and deaths.
- Estimating the proportion of illnesses that are domestically acquired and foodborneUnspecified agents; Unspecified acute gastroenteritis illnesses; Unspecified acute gastroenteritis hospitalizations and deaths; Domestically acquired foodborne illness caused by unspecified agents; Estimation in other countries; Global efforts; Methodological considerations; Conclusions; References; 2 The Foods Most Often Associated with Major Foodborne Pathogens: Attributing Illnesses toFood Sources and Ranking Pathogen/FoodCombinations; Introduction; Integrated measures of disease burden.
- Methods of foodborne illness source attributionAnalysis of US outbreak data for food source attribution; Assessing the applicability of outbreak-derived attribution estimates; Ranking pathogen/food combinations; Acknowledgments; References; 3 Microbial Food Safety Risk Assessment; Introduction; Background; Managing microbial food safety risks; The risk assessment framework; Hazard identification; Exposure assessment; Hazard characterization; Risk characterization; Risk assessment approaches; Summary; References.
- 4 Development of Risk-based Food Safety Systems for Foodborne Infections and IntoxicationsIntroduction; Building blocks for a risk-based food safety system; Elements of a risk-based food safety system; Step 1: Strategic planning; Step 2: Public health risk ranking; Step 3: Targeted information gathering and consideration of other factors; Step 4: Analysis and selection of interventions; Step 5: Design of intervention plans; Step 6: Monitoring and review; The overall risk-based decision process; Challenges in implementing risk-based food safety systems; Summary; References.
- 2. Foodborne Infections: Bacterial5 Pathogen Updates: Salmonella; Introduction; The disease in man; Symptoms and sequelae; Incidence and burden of human salmonellosis; Epidemiology and disease transmission in humans; Microbiology; Classification; Characterization and virulence; Typing methods for tracing the sources of human infections; Source attribution: approaches and discussion of studies; Source attribution using microbial subtyping; Source attribution using outbreak data; Source attribution using systematic review of case-control studies; Other approaches for source attribution.