Livestock Product Quality Safety and its Detection Technology

Author: Zhang Xiaodong
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: This book is a comprehensive and highly practical work that elaborates on knowledge of livestock product safety, quality control methods for livestock products, and provides detailed introductions to detection technologies for livestock product safety. In today's world, where numerous incidents related to livestock and food products have occurred in various countries, and where safety issues are particularly serious, the publication of this book offers significant assistance and high reading value for quality control and detection personnel in the field of livestock products, technical staff in livestock product production enterprises, as well as teaching and research personnel in related fields such as livestock product and food hygiene, veterinary medicine, and food quality and safety. It also holds reference value for decision-makers in relevant government departments. The safety of livestock products and food quality and safety are major concerns for people today. Focusing on livestock product safety and starting from the scientific concept of modern livestock product quality management, the book systematically introduces readers to knowledge, issues, and countermeasures to address livestock product safety problems. The book provides detailed explanations on various manifestations of livestock product safety issues (e.g., veterinary drug residues, pesticide residues, spoilage and deterioration, foodborne diseases), hazard analysis and toxicological safety evaluation of livestock products, quality and safety management systems in livestock production, food safety production technologies for livestock products, and quality analysis of meat, eggs, and dairy products. Based on the latest detection standards and technologies, the book extensively introduces readers to the detection of foodborne pathogenic bacteria, foodborne parasitic diseases, zoonotic pathogenic microorganisms, mycotoxins, harmful chemical elements, veterinary drugs, pesticides, organic pollutants, and food additives. It also covers current hot topics of particular concern (e.g., avian influenza, foot-and-mouth disease, mad cow disease, dioxins).