Environmental Indicators and Shellfish Safety - Hardcover

Hackney, Cameron R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0442007493 ISBN 13: 9780442007492

Publisher: Chapman & Hall, 1994

Synopsis

An outgrowth of the National Indicator Study, this comprehensive, current reference provides a thorough literature review and a wide range of practical information with respect to microbial and chemical indicators of pollution; shellfish safety with respect to enteric viruses and bacterial pathogens and their relationship to environmental indicators, including the characteristics of the organism, its survival in the environment, the illness, and the methodology for recovering the organism; methodology, including rapid methods and emerging technologies; and the phenomenon of cell injury, along with variable but nonculturable cells. Changes in indicator and pathogen populations during handling and storage of shellstock are treated at length. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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Synopsis

Mounting concerns about the safety of molluscan shellfish makes this volume a must for seafood microbiologists, marine biologists, environmental scientists, fisheries biologists and food scientists. This comprehensive reference describes and assesses the contamination indicators in shellfish and their growing waters. It profiles virtually all the bacterial and viral pathogens associated with illness from the consumption of shellfish and reviews the latest, most successful methods of detection and analysis. It also supplies a concise, historical overview of shellfish control efforts, discusses the environmental factors affecting indicators from shellfish growing waters, assesses current harvesting and processing standards and practices with suggested new approaches and surveys the latest international efforts in controlled purification.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chapman & Hall
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0442007493
• ISBN 13: 9780442007492
• Binding: Hardcover
• Editor: Pierson Merle D.