Foodborne Infections and Intoxications, 5th Edition

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.

Key Features:

• Covers all major foodborne pathogens and toxins, and new emerging pathogens.
• Includes newly updated information on the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and other regulatory approaches to food safety.
• Includes new chapters on foodborne disease outbreak investigations and use of molecular epidemiologic techniques in these investigations.