Food Safety in China: Science, Technology, Management and Regulation

From contaminated infant formula to a spate of all-too familiar headlines in recent years, food safety has emerged as one of the harsher realities behind China's economic miracle. Tainted beef, horse meat and dioxin outbreaks in the western world have also put food safety in the global spotlight.

Food Safety in China: Science, Technology, Management and Regulation presents a comprehensive overview of the history and current state of food safety in China, along with emerging regulatory trends and the likely future needs of the country. Although the focus is on China, global perspectives are presented in the chapters and 33 of the 99 authors are from outside of China.

Timely and illuminating, this book offers invaluable insights into our understanding of a critical link in the increasingly globalized complex food supply chain of today's world.

Keywords: safe food; quality assurance; safe food products; food microbiology; food security; food safety; benchmarking food safety; food risk management; food traceability; global food safety systems; international collaboration; codex alimentarus; China; tainted beef; horse meat; dioxin outbreaks; Food Safety in China: Science, Technology, Management and Regulation; food safety in China; food regulation; global food safety; food industry; food microbiology; food chemistry; food risk assessment; food laws; food regulations; food inspection; international food trade; food safety technology; food supply chain; Joseph Jwu-shan Jen; Junshi Chen, Microbiology, Food Safety & Security