Toxins and Other Harmful Compounds in Foods

This book presents up-to-date knowledge on the occurrence, structure, and properties of harmful components in foods, the mode of action of these compounds in the human organism, the possibilities to detect them, and the procedures applied to eliminate the health hazards caused by food toxins and other noxious constituents. The book presents the subject from the point of view of toxicologists, microbiologists, food chemists, and food technologists.

AGATA WITCZAK received the B.S. and M.S. from the Technical University in Szczecin, the Ph.D. from the Agricultural University in Szczecin, and the D.Sc. from the West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin (ZUT). She serves as a Vice Dean for the quality of education, and for two fields of study: Commodity Science, and Management of Food Safety and Quality, at the Faculty of Food Sciences and Fisheries, ZUT. She is a member of the American Chemical Society and the Polish Society of Food Technologists, and an expert at the Sectorial Centre of Competence for the Food Industry at the Regional Centre for Innovation and Technology Transfer, ZUT. She is a chemist and toxicologist who researches persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in environmental and food safety studies.

ZDZISLAW E. SIKORSKI received the B.S., M.S, Ph.D., and D.Sc. from the Gdansk University of Technology (GUT), Dr honoris causa from the Agricultural University in Szczecin and is a fellow of the International Academy of Food Science and Technology. He gained industrial experience in breweries, in fish, meat, and vegetable processing plants, and on a deep-sea fishing trawler. He was organizer, professor, and head of the Department of Food Chemistry and Technology in GUT, served there as Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry, was chairman of the Committee of Food Technology and Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, chaired the scientific board of the Sea Fisheries Institute in Gdynia, and was an elected member of the Main Council of Science and Tertiary Education in Poland. He worked also as researcher/professor in Ohio State University; CSIRO in Hobart; DSIR in Auckland; and National Taiwan Ocean University in Keelung.