Pesticide Residues in Foods, 9780471574002
Hardcover
Minute traces, major concerns: pesticide analysis, regulations, and food safety.

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  • Hardcover

    384 pages

  • Release Date

    14 January 1999

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Summary

Ensuring Food Safety: A Comprehensive Guide to Pesticide Residue Analysis

Advances in analytical chemistry methodology have enabled the detection of minute trace amounts of pesticides, increasing public concern about toxic contamination. This has led to stricter government regulations and a growing demand for more sensitive, precise, and reliable analysis.

This volume presents a unified treatment of the regulatory and analytical aspects of pesticide residues, addressing the …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780471574002
ISBN-10:0471574007
Series:Chemical Analysis: A Series of Monographs on Analytical Chemistry and Its Applications
Author:W. George Fong, H. Anson Moye, James N. Seiber, John P. Toth
Publisher:John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint:Wiley-Interscience
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:384
Edition:1st
Release Date:14 January 1999
Weight:628g
Dimensions:232mm x 160mm x 23mm
About The Author

W. George Fong

W. GEORGE FONG, a widely recognized expert in the pesticide residue field, is the Environmental Administrator of the Florida Department of Agriculture. His published work includes the chapter on toxicology in the Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, Fourth Edition.

H. ANSON MOYE is Professor in the Food Science and Human Nutrition Department at the University of Florida. He has published numerous papers and articles in a career that spans nearly three decades.

JAMES N. SEIBER is Director of the Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the University of Nevada in Reno. Dr. Seiber is the coeditor of Fumigants: Environmental Fate, Exposures, and Analysis and Treatment and Disposal of Pesticide Wastes.

JOHN P. TOTH is Coordinator of the mass spectrometry facility at the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. Among others, his research interests include the application of mass spectrometry to pesticide residue analysis.

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