Food Analysis (Food Science Text Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 083421203X ISBN 13: 9780834212039

Publisher: Aspen Publishers Inc.,U.S., 1998

Synopsis

This book provides information on the techniques needed to analyze foods in laboratory experiments. All topics covered include information on the basic principles, procedures, advantages, limitations, and applications. This book is ideal for undergraduate courses in food analysis and is also an invaluable reference to professionals in the food industry. General information is provided on regulations, standards, labeling, sampling and data handling as background for chapters on specific methods to determine the chemical composition and characteristics of foods. Large, expanded sections on spectroscopy and chromatography are also included. Other methods and instrumentation such as thermal analysis, selective electrodes, enzymes, and immunoassays are covered from the perspective of their use in the chemical analysis of foods. A helpful Instructor's Manual is available to adopting professors.

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Review

...an excellent introductory food analysistextbook...for instruction, or as a reference manual for analysts inthe food industry.'Food Technology

About the Author

Piers Paul Read is best known for his book "Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors", which documented the story of the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 and was adapted into a film in 1993. He has won a number of prizes for his fiction, including the Hawthornden Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

Edition details

• Publisher: Aspen Publishers Inc.,U.S.
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 083421203X
• ISBN 13: 9780834212039
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 672
• Editor: Nielsen Suzanne