Dioxins and dioxin-like compounds in the food supply : strategies to decrease exposure /

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Dioxin and dioxin-like compounds, or DLCs, are found throughout the environment, in soil, water, and air. People are exposed to these unintentional environmental contaminants primarily through the food supply, although at low levels, particularly by eating animal fat in meat, dairy products, and fis...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on the Implications of Dioxin in the Food Supply
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2003.
Subjects:
Dioxins > Toxicology.
Food contamination.
Risk management.
Dioxins > adverse effects
Food Contamination > prevention & control
Environmental Monitoring > methods
Food Supply > standards
Risk Management
Food Contamination
Dioxines > Toxicologie.
Aliments > Contamination.
Gestion du risque.
risk management.
MEDICAL > Toxicology.
Risk management
Dioxins > Toxicology
Food contamination
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • ""FrontMatter""; ""Reviewers""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Acronyms and Glossary""; ""Executive Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 A Summary of Dioxin Reports, Assessments, and Regulatory Activity""; ""3 Sources of Dioxins and Dioxin-like Compounds in the Environment""; ""4 Animal Production Systems""; ""5 Human Foods and Food-Consumption Patterns""; ""6 Framework for the Development of Policy Options to Reduce Exposure to Dioxins and Dioxin-like Compounds""; ""7 Policy Options to Reduce Exposure to Dioxins and Dioxin-like Compounds""
  • ""8 Risk-Management Recommendations and Research Priorities""""Appendixes""; ""A Data Tables""; ""B Total Diet Study Report: Dioxin Concentrations in Foods""; ""C Open Session and Workshop Agendas""; ""D Committee Member Biographical Sketches""

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