Food quality, food-borne diseases, and food safety in the Brazilian food industry

The Impact of Food Manufacturing Practices on Food borne Diseases

Food-borne illness is a major international problem and an important cause of reduced economic growth. The contamination of the food supply with the pathogens and its persistence, growth, multiplication and/or toxin production has emerged as an important public health concern. Most of these problems could be controlled with the efforts on the part of the food handlers, whether in a processing p...

Food Insecurity and Chronic Diseases: The Editorial

Food Quality and Safety

Nanotechnology in Food Industry; Advances in Food processing, Packaging and Food Safety

Nanotechnology is emerging as a rapidly growing field with its wide application in science and technology for manufacturing of new materials at nanoscale level (Albrecht et al., 2006). This technology gained a tremendous impetus due to its capability of reformulating metals into new nanosized particles, with dimension less than 100 nm in size. Due to nanoparticle size, their physio-chemical pro...

Bacteriological quality and food safety in a Brazilian school food program.

INTRODUCTION Food safety is a critical issue in school food program. OBJECTIVE This study was conducted to assess the bacteriological quality and food safety practices of a municipal school food program (MSFP) in Jequitinhonha Valley, Brazil. MATERIALS AND METHODS A checklist based on good manufacturing practices (GMP) for food service was used to evaluate food safety practices. Samples fro...