Contents

• • Introduction
  
  
• Nutrition
  • Food, what is it?
    • Plant sterols
    • Deep frying oil and shortenings
    • Palmoil
    • Toxicology of heated fat
    • Colon carcinogenicity of heated oil
    • Isomalt
    • Seafood
    • Functional Food
    • The FINE Study
    • Mood Food
    • Cocoa and chocolate directive 2000/36 EC
    • Sales names and definitions of cocoa, chocolate and their products
    • Vegetable fats allowed to be added to chocolate and related products
    • Influenza and probiotic bacteria
    • Acrylamide
    • Surface browning as indicator of acrylamide formation
    • Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) in grilled, fried or broiled meat and cheese products
    • Frozen Food Standards
    • Canned food
    • Dieting fads
    • Bromate in bottled water
    • Starch
    • Glycemic index
    • Encapsulation of flavours
  • Obesity
    • Green Tea and weight reduction
    • Obesity drug treatment
    • New anti-obesity drug Contrave
  • Food Allergies
    • EC labelling legislation
    • Evaluation of the Allergic State
    • Developing Food allergies
    • Treatment of Food Allergy
    • Food intolerance
    • Prevalence of food hypersensitivity
    • Detection of food allergens
    • Allergies and cross-reactivity
  • Baby Food and Infant Formulas
    • How to feed a baby, recommendations of UK FSA
    • Infant Formula Regulations
    • Studies related to infant formulas
  • Functional Foods and Novel Foods
    • Flavonoids, such as isoflavones, anthocyanidins and flavonols
    • Effect of phytoestrogens such as lignans on cancer risk
    • Health benefits of flavonoids from citrus fruits
    • Soy as supplement in infant formulas
    • Special purpose value added soybeans
  • Physiology
    • Early Nutrition Programming Project EARNEST
    • Resveratrol, the "anti-aging drug"
    • Dietary fibre and inflammation
    • Dietary natural agents and cancer
    • Green tea reducing cancer risk
    • Cardiovascular protection of red wine and white wine
    • Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) and Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI)
    • Actual dietary references set from US Food and Drug Administration FDA
    • Mangosteen
    • Methylmercury
    • Trans fat claims, FDA proposal
    • Low-calories, low dietary energy density and physical activity
    • Warning about high levels of multivitamins increasing the risk of prostate cancers
    • Protective effect of green tea and soy intake in relation to breath cancer risk
    • 19.02.2008: Effect of low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet on radiological features of the breast
    • Flavonols in chocolate
    • Legumin and homologous proteins
    • Butter flavour diacetyl in Popcorn linked to deadly lung disease
  • Fruits and Vegetables
    • Broccoli
    • The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer (EPIC) 2009
  • Ingredients
    • No-effect-level
    • Additives in the European Food Law and the Codex Alimentarius
    • Codex Alimentarius
    • EU food additives regulations
    • Smoke flavourings
    • Measuring the antioxidant activity of phytochemicals
    • Safety and bioavailability of Vanadium, EFSA and FSA assessment
    • Enzymes
    • Ezyme Commission number (EC number)
    • UniProt
    • SodiumBenzoate and certain colours increases hyperactivity in children
    • Sugar, anti-social behaviour and ADHD
    • Sodium benzoate as source of benzene in soft drinks
    • Benzene in foods without added benzoates
    • Natural cure for meats
    • Nitrites and nitrates in cured meat fruit and vegetable may protect against heart attack
  • Food Supplements
    • Diabetes and carotenoids
    • Pros and cons related to supplements
    • Slimming ingredients, an unserious category?
    • Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA) as food supplement
    • Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA), a review
    • Memory Supplements without solid scientific support
    • The controversity of fibre and colorectal cancer
    • Blind trials
  • Vitamins
    • Folic acid
    • Folic acid supplementation of bread or flower
    • Vitamin K
    • Vitamin D
  • Additives and E-Numbers
    • International Numbering System for Ingredients INS- Number
    • EU food additives regulations
    • Citric acid ester of mono- and di-glycerides replacing lecithin in chocolate applications.
    • Bulk sweeteners and intersity sweeteners
    • Lack of association between saccharin, aspartame and other sweeteners and the risk of several common neoplasms.
    • Low-calorie sweeteners and obesity
  
  
• Dietary Habits
  • Dieting and Dietary Habits
    • Vegetarian food with animal ingredients
    • Psychology of diet plans
    • The cause of failure of diet plans and how to do it better
    • The separation diet of Dr. Howard Hay
    • Good diets
    • The risks of bad diets
    • Evaluation of High-Protein Diets
    • Weight Reduction
    • Physiology of hunger
    • Appetite to specific foods
    • Well-fed
    • Reductil, a suppressant of appetite
    • Xenical, The fight against fat
    • Use of Xenical in case of low body weight (BMI below 30)
    • Food with reduced fat
    • Medical prescription of Xenical in case of BMI 30 to 40
    • Use of Xenical in case of BMI over 40
    • Xenical, the drug of the rich society
    • Dexfenfluramin
    • Breakfast
    • The Conference on Preventing Childhood Obesity, December 8, 2003
    • Frequency of meals
    • A classification and regression trees analysis on risk factors for childhood overweight (CART analysis)
    • Salt intake and hypertension
    • Salt reduction- Lower Sodium Intake Recommendations to Adults
    • Other low-carbohydrate diets
    • The Jo-Jo effect reviewed
    • Moslems
    • Haram Food List of Dubai
    • Shubhah (Mushbooh)
    • Ritual slaughter
    • Ritual slaughter
    • Mechanical slaughter
    • What is behind a brand
    • Castration of animals without anaesthesia
  • Vegetarianism
    • Food and ecology
    • High consumption of red and processed meat linked breast cancer risk.
  • Organic Food
    • New label: Organic food, holistic food, Biokost and Naturproduct
    • Introduction
    • Organic Food in Europe
    • The Proposal on Organic Food
    • Organic farming
    • Controls
    • Principles applicable to all organic production
    • Principles applicable to organic farming
    • Production of processed organic feed and food
    • General farm production rules
    • Plant production rules
    • Livestock production rules
    • Production rules for feed
    • General rules on the production of processed food
    • Label and advertising claims
    • Certification
    • Imports from third countries
    • Aquaculture
    • International harmonization of organic food - Codex Alimentarius
    • Global situation of organic farming
    • NOP Standards (7 CFR Part 205)
    • Other special food systems with organic claims
    • The International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM)
    • The IFOAM Principles of Organic Agriculture
    • Other special food systems with organic claims
    • AGÖL regulation for organic animal farming
    • Labelling of organics
    • Global situation of organic farming
    • Social economic environment
    • Alternative Diets
    • Macrobiotics
    • Water for agriculture
    • Environmental development
    • Other Agricultural Systems
    • Sustainable agriculture
    • Agroecosystem
    • Campylobacter in organic poultry
    • Recover of natural antioxidants of industrial fruit and vegetable waste
    • REPCO: Replacement of copper fungicides in organic production of grapevine and apple in Europe
    • Food and ecology
    • Better cheese with corn silage feed milk than from fresh pasture milk
    • New definition of organic food and nature food
  
  
• Food Related Diseases
  • Food-Borne Diseases
    • Introduction
    • Bacterial infections
    • Cholera
    • Staphylococcus aureus
    • Moulds
    • Prevention and reduction of mycotoxin contamination in cereals
    • Disaster plans
    • Review of pathogens heat-resistance
    • Improved sanitation of large food systems
    • Antimicrobial Products
  • Moulds and Yeasts
    • Culture media for moulds and yeasts
    • Determination of yeasts and moulds
    • EFSA Qualified Presumption of Safety (QPS) of Yeasts
    • Mould in Buildings
  • BSE
  • Parasites and Protozoa
    • Free-living amoebae as human pathogens
    • Parasitic worms
    • Fishborn flukes
    • Anisakis and Herring
    • Climate change influencing parasites and pathogen development
  • Anthrax
    • Introduction
    • History of Anthrax
    • Bacillus anthracis Cohn 1872,177.Al
    • Culture of Bacillus anthracis
    • Pathogenesis of Bacillus anthracis
  • Foot and Mouth Disease
    • New strain of Asia 1 FMD of Central Asia and China
  • Livestock Diseases
    • Safe disposal of carcasses and manure
    • Zoonoses
  • Colony Collapse Disorder
    • Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)
  
  
• Bacteriology and Virology
  • General Bacteriology
    • Classification of Aeromonas spp.
    • Further classification of aeromonads
    • Historical classification of aeromonads
    • The culture of aeromonads
    • Family of Campylobacteraceae
    • Helicobacter
    • Transmission and sources of infection of Campylobacter
    • Avoid contamination
    • Prevention of infection with Campylobacter
    • Isolation and identification
    • Chlamydia
    • Clostridium perfringens
    • Diseases transmitted by water
    • Enterobacteriaceae, culture methods
    • Fluorescence methods for detection of Escherichia coli
    • Thin layer chromatography with immunologic analysis to detect E.coli 0157:H7
    • Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) identifying microorganism
    • Impedance technologies for rapid detection and enumeration of bacteria
    • The ten most dangerous diseases of the world
    • Infectious diseases in the Amazon region
    • Tetrahymena protozoan and Samonella and resistance to sanitizers
    • Meat "blown pack" spoilage
    • New predictive microbiology tools for Listeria monocitogenes
    • Bacteriological methods
  • Virology
    • Diseases caused by viruses
    • Viral infections
    • Avian influenza A and Newcastle disease
    • WHO Recommendations Regarding Avian Influenza
    • Avian Influenza and food safety
    • Still human death cases caused by H5N1 avian flue virus
    • Avian influenza and industry
    • Norovirus
    • Reoviruses
    • Rotaviruses
    • Astroviruses
    • Adenoviruses
    • Parvoviruses
    • SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
    • Vaccine against H5N1 for humans
    • Researches on HIV and antiretroviral drugs strategies, the HPTN 035 Study
  
  
• Poisonous Chemicals in Food
  • Dioxin
  • Food Poisoning
    • Algal Toxins
    • Algal blooms at eutrophic estuarine and water sheds
    • European regulatory limits for marine biotoxins not effective to protect consumer
    • Bacterial poisoning
    • Ochratoxin and aflatoxins in spices
    • Changing ecology and toxic foods
    • Origin of mercury in the Amazon region
    • Chemical contaminants
    • Pesticide risk assessment
    • Inorganic Insecticides
    • Miscellaneous compounds
    • Other contaminants
    • Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
    • Herbicides in rainfall
    • Biopesticides
    • Conventional pesticides
    • Antimicrobial agents
    • Pesticides
    • Agent Orange
    • Pollutants in milk and dairy products
    • Use of DDT for indoor spraying
    • Chlorpyrifos
    • Plasticisers as possible cancer-causing agents
    • Growth stimulating hormones in beef
    • International trade of Pesticides
    • List of the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent of banned or severely restricted chemicals
    • Annex III - Chemicals Subject To The Prior Informed Consent Procedure - Category Pesticide
    • Category Severely hazardous
    • Category Severely hazardous pesticide formulation
    • Category Industrial
    • Non dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) in feed and food
    • Tryptophan and eosinophilia-myalgia-syndrome (EMS)
    • Veterinary medicine residues in eggs and poultry meat
  • Radioactivity and Food
    • Irradiated foods in EU
  
  
• Food Industry
  • Hygienemonitoring
    • ATP-Bioluminescence
    • Hygienemanagement in food industry
    • Improving CIP technology
    • Origin of Contamination of food with pathogen bacteria
  • Avoiding Food Scandals
    • Increasing Food Safety with Predictive Microbiology
    • The ComBase Database
    • ComBase Predictor
    • Sea water and irrigation water as cause of food born diseases
    • Animal product health threats
    • Melamine in pet food and human consumption
    • Heparin scandal
    • Tainted alcoholic beverages induce deadly methanol intoxication
  • HACCP and ISO 9000
    • Food chain steps
    • The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
    • What to take care of in order to ensure food safety
    • History of HACCP
    • Hygiene regulations in Germany
    • Production, improve the technical processing
    • Health condition or the staff which comes in contact with food
    • Canadian IPM without methyl bromide
    • HACCP for supermarkets
    • How to install an HACCP system for supermarkets
    • Total Quality Management
    • Hyperlinked Management
    • Introduction of the Hyperlinked Management
    • Hyperlinked Management Structure
    • Software to handle Global Hyperlinked Management
    • HACCP and small businesses
    • Regional Programmes for Food Security (RPFS)
    • Good Agricultural Practices (GAP)
    • Multilateral trade negotiations on agriculture
    • ISO 15161:2001, Guidelines on the application of ISO 9001:2000 for the food and drink industry
    • ISO 22000: 200x Food Safety Management Standard
    • Overview of the BRC/IoP Standard
    • Content of the BRC/IoP Standard
    • Certification bodies
    • EN45011: The standard for the European Accreditation of bodies who are involved in certification
    • Detail of the Standards
    • Auditing Standard ISO 19011
    • Quality Control
    • Deming's Management-Program
    • Arman Feigenbaum
    • Interoperability of Standards
    • The main producers of national standards
    • International Standards
    • International Organization for Standardisation
    • ISO 9001:2000
    • Specifications
    • Control of non-conforming products
    • Economics of Quality
    • Pork quality and pH
    • EMAS
    • ISO 14001
    • European food safety regulation activities in EU
    • EC General Food Law Regulation 178/2002
    • Shelf life testing
  • Packaging
    • The EU food packaging regulation EC1935/2004
    • The war between glass and plastics
    • German regulations concerning recycling of packaging
    • The Euro glass
    • European regulations concerning packaging recycling
    • Types of plastic packaging
    • Phthalates in medical devices
    • Carbon monoxide treated meat
    • Bioplastics
    • Biodegradable Packaging
    • Degradable plastics
    • Latex proteins from contact materials and food allergies
    • Polyhydroxibutirate (PHB), new biodegradable plastic from sugar
    • Corkiness of wine
    • Additives and plasticisers migration from PVC gasket seals
    • Bioplastic packaging materials
    • Effects of edible coatings to extended shelf life of ready to eat foods
  • Dehydrated Foods
    • Improving spray-dried emulsions
  • Food Advertising
    • Television advertising of food and drink products to children in UK
    • Junk food adds in USA
    • International code needed to protect children from Internet and TV marketing Excesses
    • Pavlovian conditioning and food advertising
    • Debate over advertising children's products
    • Food labelling
    • Common nutrition labelling scheme
    • Mislabelling Misdescription of foods
    • Guidance on the use of marketing terms on food labels
    • UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA)
    • U. S. Food labelling
    • Misleading claims
    • Examples of misleading packaging design
    • Universal Ethical Code for Scientists
    • Little scientific evidence supporting corn oil health claim.
    • Nutrient profiling of food
    • UK Traffic Light and food
    • Brand Community
    • The aspartame controversy
    • Splenda an example of self-destroying marketing
    • Omega Eggs
    • Omega-3 fatty acids
    • Omega-6 fatty acids
    • Food crunchyness test
    • Rising taxes on alcohol in UK
  • Food Processing Innovations
    • Ingredients
    • Renewable fuel
    • Antioxidant effect of grape seed extract
    • Beet red production
  
  
• Food Safety
  • Bioterrorism
    • Food and Bioterrorism
    • The Bioterrorism Security Act
    • Dangerous agents
    • Emergency Preparedness
    • Survival at home
    • The German preparedness recommendation
    • The William Bell and Cham Dallas report on nuclear threat
    • Food terrorism and sabotage
    • WHO Food Safety Response to Terrorist Threats
    • Surveillance, Preparedness and Response
    • World Health Organisation and food terrorism
    • International Health Regulations (IH R)
  • Global Food Safety
    • Global food safety and global food trade
    • Introduction
    • Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
    • Convention on Biological Diversity
    • FAO Anti-Hunger Program
    • Famines
    • Activities of the Third World
    • Food sovereignty
    • WTO and the conference in Cancun
    • The future of WTO
    • North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
    • Misuses of NAFTA
    • Mercosur and the South American Free Trade Area (SAFTA)
    • The American Free Trade Area (AFTA)
    • Agriculture and plant protection
    • Monocultures
    • Agroecology
    • Integrated Production Systems
    • Cuba agroecological example
    • Intelligent Pest Management (IPM Systems)
    • Precision Farming Project
  • Future of Global Nutrition
    • Global corporations
    • Instruments of economic regulation
    • World Trade Organization ( WTO )
    • Functions of WTO
    • Agreements and other organizations resulting from WTO
    • Codex Alimentarius Commission
    • Developing Countries and the WTO System
    • Export Dumping
    • The joint paper for Cancun
    • Kyoto protocol
    • Oysters, climate change and increasing pollution of costal waters
    • Food waste
    • Biomineralization and bacterial hydrogenases
    • Climate change makes near-surface fish grow faster
    • No chance for DOHA no chance for climate control no chance to avoid nuclear war
    • GATS (General Agreement on Trade in Services)
    • Origin of GATT and other Agreements
    • Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights TRIPs
    • TRIPSs and Software
    • NAFTA and FTA
    • Environment and trade
    • World Bank
    • IMF International Monetary Fund
    • OECD Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
    • Excessive trade endangers species
    • The Roadmap to Recovery of Marine Reserves
    • Fermentation products
    • Renewable fuel in the City of Portland
  
  
• Agriculture and Ecology
  • Phytopathology
    • Ug99 fungus, other crop pests and drought are threatening food security of large population groups
    • Phenology
    • Soybean diseases
    • Extreme heat and drought in some regions of Europe
    • Genetic diversity within a species improves the ecosystem
    • Insect Resistance Management
    • Cassava
    • Iceberg lettuce breeding for high resistance to fungus and microbes
    • Leaf cutting ants
  • Ecology and Biofuels
    • Particulate Matter
    • Climate
    • Rising food prices
    • Nanofood
  
  
• Genetics
  • Genetic Modification of Food
    • Low-linolenic soyseeds
    • Hybrid rice
    • Genetically modified rice in Japan
    • Liberty herbicide and NAG (N-acetyl-L-glufosinate)
    • Transporter IRTI for assimilation of iron
    • Cultivation of genetic modified seeds in Brazil
    • Human embrionic stem cells
    • Cloning of cells from frozen material
    • Cloning of animals for better foods
    • Australian GM field peas
    • Lycopene from Fusarium sporotrichoides
    • GM Maize
    • Unwanted gene flow from canola
    • EU concept of coexistence
    • USDA field test permission for genetically engineered crop
    • Recommendations from the Canadia Canola Council Canola to farmers
    • Genetic regulations in the EU
    • GM corn in Europe
    • Genetic risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus
    • Genetic factors of obesity
    • Antibiotic resistance marker genes nptII in GM plants poses no risk to human, animal or environment
    • Pharmaceutical rice
    • Transgenes in Mexican maize at the preliminary stage of climate change
    • Brown algae genetic code may explain origin of higher living beings
  • Nutritional Genomics
    • The beginning of nutritional genomics
    • Uses of food genomics
    • metabolomics
  
  
• Index

• Introduction