Foodborne Infections and Intoxications - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0128195193 ISBN 13: 9780128195192

Publisher: Academic Press, 2021

Synopsis

Foodborne Infections and Intoxications, Fifth Edition is a valuable scientific resource of foodborne pathogens that contributes to disease. The new edition offers the latest approaches to food safety for multiple generations of students, investigators, and food safety practitioners. It has the most up-to-date information to understand the changes and emerging issues relevant to food safety and overall public health. In addition to the updates, this new edition places a strong emphasis on estimates of disease burden, development of risk-based approaches to food safety and food safety regulation implementation.

• Provides all major foodborne pathogens and new emerging pathogens
• Includes newly updated information on the Food and Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)
• Presents recent foodborne outbreaks and control strategies

About this title

About the Authors

Dr. J. Glenn Morris is a physician epidemiologist with board certification in both internal medicine and infectious diseases. Morris started his public health career at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where he was an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer with responsibility for national foodborne disease surveillance. He was on the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine for 24 years, where he served as Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine; he currently directs the Emerging Pathogens Institute at the University of Florida. He has served on four National Academy of Sciences expert committees dealing with food safety and was a member of the National Academy’s Food and Nutrition Board. In the mid-1990s, he worked with the Food Safety Inspection Service in the U.S. Department of Agriculture on the first major revision of food safety regulations since 1906 and has continued to work on scientific and regulatory approaches to control of foodborne diseases.

Dr. Duc J. Vugia was trained in internal medicine and infectious diseases before embarking on his public health career starting as a foodborne disease epidemiologist with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Epidemic Intelligence Service in 1990 and then continuing with the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) in 1994. Since 1995, Dr. Vugia has been Chief of the Infectious Diseases Branch at CDPH where he worked with local, state, and federal partners to address foodborne, waterborne, vector-borne, zoonotic, and emerging infectious diseases.

From the Back Cover

Foodborne Infections and Intoxications, Fifth Edition is a valuable scientific resource of foodborne pathogens that contributes to disease. The new edition offers the latest approaches to food safety for multiple generations of students, investigators, and food safety practitioners. It has the most up-to-date information to understand the changes and emerging issues relevant to food safety and overall public health. In addition to the updates, this new edition places a strong emphasis on estimates of disease burden, development of risk-based approaches to food safety and food safety regulation implementation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0128195193
• ISBN 13: 9780128195192
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 624
• Editor: Morris Jr.