Metal Contamination of Food. Its Significance for Food Quality and Human Health
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Author(s): C. Reilly
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
ISBN: 0632059273
Format: hardback
266pp
Price: £79.50
Review Date: 31 October 2002
Review: This book looks at all aspects of the presence of metals in foods, concentrating on those that are undesirable. It follows the path by which metals get into foods and looks at the laws and regulations that have been made to protect us from the undesirable effects of metal contamination. The second half of the book looks at the individual metals in detail: persistent contaminants – lead, mercury, and cadmium; packaging materials – aluminium and tin; transition metals – chromium, manganese, iron, cobalt, nickel, copper, molybdenum: metalloids – arsenic, antimony, selenium, tellurium and boron; and new metal contaminants – radioisotopes, platinum metals, electronic metal; and other metals – barium, beryllium, and thallium. This new edition, more than 80 per cent of which has been rewritten, takes in new legislation and the ready availability of multi-element analysis, improved sample preparation, and the growing interest in chemical species, not simply the total concentration of metals in foods. Data on metal levels have been updated and greater account is taken of the nutritional properties of many of the metals that we consume.