Safety Resources: Books

Food Safety: Contaminants and Toxins examines various aspects related to safety of food including extensive overview about contaminants, toxins and related issues. It includes definitions of different food safety principles, contaminants, toxin, pre-harvest and post-harvest food safety. Additionally, it discusses the latest trends in the food industry. Provides the reader with insights into the development of its awareness, so as to understand the necessity of food safety and motivations, arguments, backgrounds of contamination of food.

Highly functional in content and approach, this first Canadian edition draws immediate connections between principles and their practices in real-world settings, includes the latest WHMIS standards, and approaches health and safety issues from the perspective of Total Quality Management (TQM) and global competitiveness.

Since its inception in the early 1950s, this book has become the number one resource for those who need to evaluate the hazard of substances used in commerce. Now in its eleventh edition, it contains extensive data on approximately 26,000 substances, including 2000 new entries.