Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology459- Impact of Processing on Food Safety

The contents of this book are the proceedings of the ACS symposium, "Impact of Processing on Food Safety," which was held April 16-17, 1997, at the American Chemical Society National Meeting in San Francisco, CA. This volume represents a comprehensive overview of safety issues relating to food processing. It contains a discussion of food processing and its effects on nutritional quality, the formation of toxic compounds, and the destruction of detrimental contaminants. Topics also include the effects of processing on microbial safety and chemical safety of food.