The Microbiological Risk Assessment of Food
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Author(s): S. Forsythe
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
ISBN: 0632059524
Format: softback
212pp
Price: £29.95
Review Date: 15 October 2002
Review: Every day we eat food containing bacteria. The question is, ‘What is an acceptable level?’. Microbial risk assessment is at an early stage of development, so here the author covers not only risk assessment, but also related topics, such as predictive microbiology and sampling plans. He first discusses the different food-borne microbial pathogens in the world food trade, and then goes on to look at the present food safety tools – control and HACCP. Risk analysis is the probability of an adverse health effect and the severity of the effect, consequential to a hazard in food. Examples of a number of different microbiological risk assessments are included as well as suggestions for an international methodology and guidelines for risk assessment.