Difficulties and Topics of Food Safety Evaluation

Health Canada: Current Topics in Food Chemical Safety Research

This special issue of Food Additives and Contaminants dedicated to ‘Health Canada: Current Topics in Food Chemical Safety Research’ will be the first published document where the focus is on Health Canada’s food research activities. This issue features a selection of papers arising from work in the Food Research Division of the Bureau of Chemical Safety within Health Canada’s Food Directorate a...

Food Safety Evaluation - National and International Perspectives

The maintenance of good health demands that food should not only be nutritious but also safe and of good quality. There has been growing concern regarding environmental contamination of food and excessive use of chemicals in food production and processing in the country in recent times. The growth of the food processing industry in India has consequently been very rapid, about 24 per cent in 19...

Safety evaluation of certain food additives

Safety evaluation of certain food additives

Safety Evaluation of Pesticide Residues in Food

Catalytic antibodies: Like enzyme nomenclature, it is proposed that the nomenclature of catalytic antibodies should be based on the reaction catalysed, rather than on structural features. As more than one different ‘abzyme’ catalysing the same general reaction may be produced, there is clearly a possibility for confusion. However, the catalytic behaviour and specificities may not be identical. ...