Food Consumption and Disease Risk covers important issues in the relationship between consumers and foodborne bacteria, viruses and parasites. It presents a broad picture of aspects that increase or decrease exposure to foodborne pathogens, such as globalization of the food supply and trends in food processing.

The book addresses host factors that influence foodborne disease (age, genetics and underlying illness) and characteristics of pathogenic agents that influence interaction with human hosts.

Features:

• Thoroughly addresses the issues of pathogens and their control in food
• Focuses on contamination risks at various stages in the processing of foods
• Discusses handling, processing, packaging, and refrigeration issues in depth
• Traces food products from the farm to the kitchen and explains how to control pathogens at each step

Contents

Factors that Influence Interactions between Foodborne Pathogenic Agents and Consumers

• Introduction to foodborne illness: public health impact, pathogens and consumers
• Populations at Elevated Risk of Foodborne Disease
• Globalisation of the Food Supply and the Influence of Economic Factors on the
• Contamination of Food with Pathogens
• Trends in Agricultural Management and Land Use and the Risk of Foodborne Disease
• Influence of Food Processing Practices and Technologies on Consumer-Pathogen
• Interactions
• Exposure Assessment for Foodborne Pathogens
• Using Surveillance Data to Characterize and Analyze Risk Factors for Foodborne Illness

Human Host Factors that Influence Foodborne Disease

• Nonspecific Host Defences Against Foodborne Pathogens
• Specific Immune Mechanisms of Defence Against Foodborne Pathogens
• nhanced Susceptibility to Foodborne Infections and Disease Due to Underlying Illnesses and Pregnancy

Agent Factors of Pathogenicity and Virulence that Influence foodborne Disease

• Evolutionary Parasitology: The Development of Invasion, Evasion and Survival
• Mechanisms Used by Bacterial, Viral, Protozoan and Metazoan Parasites
• Foodborne Microbes' Mechanisms of Colonization, Attachment and Invasion
• Hijacking the Host Cell: Foodborne Pathogens' Strategies for Reproduction and Defence Evasion
• Role of Viruses in Foodborne Disease
• Pathogenic Mechanisms of Foodborne Viral Disease
• Pathogenic Mechanisms of Food and Waterborne Parasitic Disease
• Dose-Response Relationships and Foodborne Disease

Index

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