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Food additives
Food
Additives (uses other than as flavouring agents) Database
This database contains the most recent
food additive specifications of JECFA for uses other than as flavouring
agents. You can search the database using (1) the name or ID number,
(2) the functional use and / or the purity criteria; (3) you can also
retrieve all the specifications designed as tentative. For ID number
searching use either the International Numbering System (INS) number
adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission or by Chemical Abstract
Service (CAS) number. This is by the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee
on Food Additives (JECFA).
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Food safety/Foodborne
Diseases
Food code
This is a full text reference document for regulatory agencies responsible
for overseeing food safety in retail outlets such as restaurants and
grocery stores and institutions such as nursing homes and child care
centers. By the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Food Safety
and Inspection Service (FSIS), and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC)
The Bad Bug Book
This handbook provides basic facts regarding foodborne pathogenic microorganisms
and natural toxins. It also includes protozoa, parasitic
worms, and toxins such as the aflatoxins, liver-wrecking poisons exuded
by fungi that grow on peanuts and corn. For each kind of food poisoning,
a just-the-facts chapter describes symptoms, transmission, infective
dose, treatments, and recent outbreaks.
By the Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition, U.S. Food &
Drug Administration.
Food Safety throughout
the food system
By Penn State. This site provides information
on food safety and food preservation organised into databases. It also
features news, related sites and the university's food safety program.
USDA
Food Safety Inspection Service
This agency home page provides information on the food safety mission
and activities of the service, current news releases, publications,
consumer education information and information on the implementation
of HACCP.
Food Particle
Particle
Sizing - An Introduction
This site outlines the different methods used for particle sizing.
By Dr Alan Rawle with the Malvern Instruments Ltd.
Particle Size Analysis
and Screening
This online tutorial describes the general principles and methods of
sampling, particle size analysis, and screening. By Gordon Young, Director
of Food Industry Engineering Pty Ltd, based in Brisbane, Australia.
Osmonics Filtration
Spectrum
A Chart of mapping particle size ranges and its corresponding sizing
techniques.
by Osmonics Corp. Also available in PDF. It also has a brief
descriptions of various particle sizing techniques and examples
of their applications.
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Genetic engineering
DNA for Dinner?
A WebQuest, by William E. Peace, which contains a series
of issues for students to analyses regarding genetic engineering in
food to gain a clear understanding of several things about modern biotechnology.
Global issues
on Genetic Engineered Food
This site discusses the social, economic, health, political and
safety aspects of genetic engineered food.
The NCBE
Guide to genetically modified food
This guide has been put together in response to the intense interest
in food biotechnology in the UK starting on 12 February 1999.
The NCBE is part of the University of Reading, UK.
Information Systems
for Biotechnology
The aim of site is to provides information resources to support the
environmentally responsible use of agricultural biotechnology products.
It has documents and searchable databases pertaining to the development,
testing and regulatory review of genetically modified plants, animals
and microorganisms in and outside the U.S.
Genetic modification and
food
Here it discusses the techniques, effect and safety aspects of foods
including labelling issues. By the Institute of Food Science &
Technology.
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