Synopses & Reviews
The safety and quality of food is of great public concern. This volume focusses upon foods of animal origin. It discusses the monitoring and controlling of quality and safety at selected stages along the chain of events in food production from growth, harvest and post-harvest to food processing, transport and storage. The editors have brought together under the aegis of the In- ternational Society of Animal Clinical Biochemistry (ISACB) the knowhow and expertise of many pre-eminent scientists. The latest issues in food safety, quality assurance and de- tection techniques of deleterious residues are discussed. Every contribution contains abstracts in English, French, Spanish and German. From the contents: Impurities in Meat - Sources and Influences; Prospects for On-line Quality Measurements; Assignment of Analysis in a CAQ Concept of the Pork Production Chain; New Analytical Methods for the Detection of Veterinary Drugs in Milk; Determination of Bioactive Peptides in Milk; Influence of Feed on Residues and Contaminants in Milk; Milk Screening Tests for Controlling Herd Health and for Milk Quality Determination; Evaluation of Residues and Contaminants in Food - Difficulties and Significance; An Enzymatic Sensor for Measurements in Complex Fluids; Dry Chemistry in the Evaluation of Food Quality and Composition; Quality Assurance - The Strategy for the Production of Safe Food Products with High Quality; Food Quality - Definition and a Holistic View.
Synopsis
The food industry is in the process of adapting itself more strongly than previously to the demands and needs for quality products. Tightening up the legal framework of conditions and the internationalization of the markets are compelling a further development of concern over quality and its purposeful application. The 13th International Conference on Biochemical Analysis organized a workshop together with the International Society of Animal Clinical Biochemistry (ISACB) within the framework of "Analytica 1992" in Munich to come to grips with this complex of problems. This workshop should reinforce the awareness and motivation for the new responsibilities of analytical chemistry and contribute to the integration of biochemical methods as part of a comprehensive quality control concept in the production of foodstuffs of animal origin. These methods include preventive medical checkups on the living animal, the monitoring of deleterious factors in its environment, as well as analysis of residues in its feed and the actual food. The aim of this workshop was: - to intensify the dialogue between applied research, development, and utiliza- tion, - to demonstrate the new opportunities that analytical chemistry has to offer and to prepare the way for their introduction, - to show new methods, concepts, and prototypal developments - to draw conclusions from trends and tendencies, as well as future requirements.