Epidemiologic Principles and Food Safety

Epidemiologic Principles and Food Safety

With >4,000 biomedical journals currently available, and more being added seemingly every month, one of the most overwhelming and daunting tasks for any health professional is to stay current with the literature. A welcomed lifeline has been the World Class Parasites series of publications that have made this challenge much easier to manage. The latest text (Volume 11), Food-Borne Parasitic Zoo...

Clinical and epidemiologic principles of anthrax.

Principles of Risk Assessment of Mycotoxins in Food and Feed by European Food Safety Authority (efsa)

There are several international organizations with scientific boards dealing with the problem of food and feed contaminants. Apart the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC, Lyon, France) which is focused on carcinogenicity of natural and manmade compounds, there is also a more recently founded (1980) International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS), a joint venture of the United N...

Epidemiologic risks for food allergy.

This article reviews possible risk factors and theories for the development of food allergy. It is noted that previous strategies to prevent food allergy through allergen avoidance during pregnancy, breast-feeding, and infancy have more recently been called into question. Alternative hypotheses are examined with respect to food allergy, namely the hygiene hypothesis, the dietary fat hypothesis,...

Radiation Principles and Safety