Metal Contamination of Food (eBook)

Conor Reilly is Emeritus Professor of Public Health at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, and also Visiting Professor of Nutrition at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK.

Preface tp the third edition.

Preface to the second edition.

Preface to the first edition.

PART I: THE METALS WE CONSUME:.

Introduction; Ash; The metals in food; Chemical properties of
the metals; Representative and transition metals; Distribution of
the metals in the environment; Metals in human tissue; Metals in
soil; Metals in food; Metal analysis of food; How metals get into
food; Metals in food and the law..

PART II: THE INDIVIDUAL METALS:.

The persistent contaminants: lead, mercury, cadmium; The
packaging metals: aluminium and tin; Transition metals: chromium,
manganese, iron, cobalt, nickel, copper, molybdenum; The other
transition metals and zinc; The metalloids: arsenic, antimony,
selenium, tellurium and boron; The new metal contaminants; The
radioactive metals; Radioisotopes; The catalytic metals; The
electronic metals; Germanium; Tantalum; Caesium; Barium, beryllium,
thallium and the other metals - summing up; Bismuth; Lithium;
Zirconium; Cerium and the other rare earth elements; The remaining
metals: summing up.

Glossary.

Index.

"I can only praise this book. I found it extraordinary in
breadth and scope... This book is highly comprehensive but still
amazingly rich in detail; exceptional quality... this book is at
the very cutting edge of current analytical technical development
and public health and safety... Impressive reading!" -
Professor Berislav Momcilovic, Croatian Medical Journal

"Libraries will be anxoius to have this comprehensive text on
their shelves... well presented and lucid throughout. It is a
worthy successor to the previous editions." Les Ebdon, British
Journal of Nutrition, November 2003

"Ein Standartwerk der angelsächsischen Lteratur, das
eine weite Verbreitung verdient und in die Grundausstattung der
Bibliotheken gehort." H Klostermeyer, European Food Research
and Technology, May 2003.

Translation: "A standard work on anglo-saxon literature that
deserves extensive

circulationand belongs on the shelves at every library."

'a well balanced and valuable reference for any health
professional interested in the role of metals in health, for the
food industry or any academic library.'

Nutrition Bulletin