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Food Toxicology
Paper Code:
FSQ 501
Credits:
03
Contact Hours:
60.00
Max. Marks:
100.00
Objective:
This course will enable the students to understand:
- Familiarize with hazards and toxicity associated with food and their implication for heath.
- Know the various kinds of hazards.
- Be familiar with various tests.
9.00
Unit I:
- Introduction to Food safety and toxicology: hazards-microbiological, nutritional, environmental, natural toxicants, pesticide residue.
10.00
Unit II:
- Assessment of food Toxicology
- Risk assessment and risk benefit
- Indices of human exposure
- General design of toxicity assays
- Acute toxicity
- Mutagen city and carcinogenicity
- Reproductive and developmental toxicity
- Neurotoxicity and behavioral effects
- Immunotoxity
- Biotechnology and food safety
8.00
Unit III:
- Evaluation guidelines and computer modeling of risk assessment
- Microbial problems in food safety including mycotoxins and viruses
9.00
Unit IV:
- Intentional Direct Additives
- Preservatives: nitrate, nitrite and N-nitroso compounds
- Indirect additives, residues and contaminants: Multi- contaminants studies. Anti-microbial and veterinary drugs, pesticides, polyhalogenated aromatic hydrocarbons, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
- Organic residues, packaging materials, heavy metals, radio nuclides in foods.
9.00
Unit V:
- Naturally occurring toxicants and food contaminants: Sea food toxins, biogenic amines, mutagens and carcinogens in heated and processed foods, coffee, methylxanthines, toxicity of mushrooms alkaloids, phenolic compounds, glucosinolates, protease inhibitors, phytates, other antinutritional compounds
- Safety aspects of foods produced by technology and genetic engineering.
- Environmental pollution sources: Air, water, sludge, soil. Hazards involved water treatment and waste management.
References:
- OECD Documents (1996): Food Safety Evaluation. Organisation for Economic Co operation and development.
- World Health Organisation (1990): Strategies for assessing the safety of foods produced by biotechnology. Report of a joint FAO/WHO Consultation- Geneva..
- Walker and Quattrucci, E. (eds) (1980) Nutritional and Toxicology Aspects of Food Processing, Tayloss and Franis. New York.
- Lava, K. Muller, E.I: Toxicological Aspects of Foods. Elsevier Applied Sciences, London.
- Bronzetti, G. Hayatsu, H. De Flora, S. Water M.D and Shankel, D.M (1993): Anti carcinogenesis Mechanism Plenum Press, New York.
- Varnham, AH. Evans, M.G.(1991): Food borne pathogens.
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