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Article: Chemicals in the Human Food Chain.
- Article from:
- Food Trade Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 1990
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1990 Food Trade Press Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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CHEMICALS in the HUMAN FOOD CHAIN. Edited
by Carl K Winter, James N Seiber and Carole F Nuckton. 276 pages with index. (UK: Chapman and Hall)
There is a question that many people ask - How safe is our food? It is more than a little unlucky that when the Western World is so well fed and science and technology has played so great a part in this state of wellbeing that certain pressure groups should create a sense of insecurity amongst large sections of the public. Many aspects of food chemicals are not well understood and the public does not seem to understand, or may be does not want to understand, that certain chemicals of natural origin are very harmful to ...