Aquatic Food Quality

This book deals with the quality and safety of aquatic food. It focuses clearly on biological and chemical hazards, antibiotic and pesticide residues, and heavy metal contaminants associated with aquatic food. The quality problems in various aquatic food products and their methods of assessment are exhaustively dealt in this book. Besides, food quality management systems like HACCP, SSOP, SCP, GHP, GMP have also been explained for easy adoption. The International and National Standards prescribed by FSSAI, EIC, BIS, Codex, USFDA, ISO and EU for aquatic food products are explicitly given. It is also useful to the personnel of aquatic food industries to improve their working knowledge on maintaining the quality and safety aquatic foods. Note: T& F does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

The book explains on the methods and procedures adopted for testing the quality and safety of aquatic food products. The analytical techniques available for testing the chemical constituents of aquatic food with separate chapters on the analysis of lipids, proteins, vitamins, and minerals are exhaustively given to determine their nutritional quality. The various methods for sensory, physical, biochemical and microbiological quality assessments of aquatic food are explicitly given with detailed protocols for easy adoption. Special chapters covering the chemical contaminants and permitted additives for residue monitoring are dealt, as they are important food safety requirements. This book will be very helpful for the food quality control technologists, food analysts, research scholars, and fisheries professionals as a holistic guide on a variety of testing procedures for facile adoption to meet the food safety and quality regulatory requirements. Note: T& F does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

The year 2020 was significant in many apparent ways. Still, wider ramifications will be realized as the crisis subsides and the world settles down to rethink what must be done to prevent another deadly outbreak of disease. Though researchers say the food was not solely responsible for the spread of the disease, negligence towards paying attention to the quality of food consumed by millions of people could lead to an undesirable situation. In some cases, new rules, regulations, and controls will have to be brought in, capable of dealing with unrealized gaps in the system. In other instances, existing systems will have to be overhauled for a more efficient one. Some laws and regulations will have to be more stringent, so there should be no case lapse. New laws are still needed at those points, levels of an industry where gaps exist. Aquatic food is a much internationally traded food group. It is difficult to get all countries to sincerely conform to equal rules, especially when many countries involved in the trade are not financially strong. Contaminated food has a direct relation to disease. Seafood containing harmful minerals, chemicals, and biochemicals can have long-term effects on health. Both wild-capture and farmed seafood are at risk.Quality of the food consumed should be a standard while consumed by a person's health should not be affected. Ensuring this is the basic level of quality control. Therefore, the need for controls at many levels is required; detect spoilage, contamination, or diseased food.HACCP will be discussed since it is a widely followed system developed to detect quality-related issues earliest in the production and processing line. Aquatic produce passed through various quality assurance, and it could be consumed with a reasonable peace of mind.

This book gives the general introduction about quality and quality parameters of fish and fishery products. This explains the quality and safety problem associated with seafood industry and their assessment. This book gives details on various standards applicable for export of fish and fishery products. The quality of affluent and treatment of effluent water of seafood Industry was explained with different mechanism. The concept of Total Quality Management in relation with HACCP concept and pre requisite program such as GMP and GHP explained with examples. This book gives importance of overall food safety and quality system through an adequate and appropriate understanding of the quality and safety parameters by all the stakeholders in the food chain.

Edited by a leading authority on quality issues, and with a distinguished international team of contributors, this major new book summarizes important new research on improving quality in fish processing.

Global aquaculture production has grown rapidly over the last 50 years. It is generally accepted that there is limited potential to increase traditional fisheries since most fish stocks are well or fully exploited. Consequently increased aquaculture production is required in order to maintain global per capita fish consumption at the present level. Fish farming enables greater control of product quality and safety, and presents the possibility of tailoring products according to consumer demands. This important collection reviews safety and quality issues in farmed fish and presents methods to improve product characteristics.The first part of the book focuses on chemical contaminants, chemical use in aquaculture and farmed fish safety. After an opening chapter discussing the risks and benefits of consumption of farmed fish, subsequent contributions consider environmental contaminants, pesticides, drug use and antibiotic resistance in aquaculture. Part two addresses important quality issues, such as selective breeding to improve flesh quality, the effects of dietary factors including alternative lipids and proteins sources on eating quality, microbial safety of farmed products, parasites, flesh colouration and off-flavours. Welfare issues and the ethical quality of farmed products are also covered. The final part discusses ways of managing of product quality, with chapters on HACCP, monitoring and surveillance, authenticity and product labelling.With its distinguished editor and international team of contributors, Improving farmed fish quality and safety is a standard reference for aquaculture industry professionals and academics in the field. Reviews safety and quality issues in farmed fish and presents methods to improve product characteristics Discusses contaminants, persistent organic pollutants and veterinary drug residues and methods for their reduction and control Addresses important quality issues, genetic control of flesh characteristics and the effects of feed on product nutritional and sensory quality

Food quality and safety issues continue to dominate the press, with most food companies spending large amounts of money to ensure that the food quality and assessment procedures in place are adequate and produce good and safe food. This holds true for companies and laboratories responsible for the processing of fish into various products, those responsible for researching safe new products, and departments within other companies supporting these functions. Fishery Products brings together details of all the major methodologies used to assess the quality of fishery products in the widest sense. Subject coverage of this important book includes chapters on assessment of authenticity, and several chapters on quality assessment using various methods, such as: Texture measurement Electronic nose and tongue NMR Colour measurement This timely volume will serve as a vital tool for all those working in the processing of fishery and aquaculture products: including laboratory personnel working in regulatory bodies, food quality control personnel, food scientists, food technologists, nutritionists, seafood trade bodies, seafood labelling regulatory bodies, government food protection agencies and environmental health personnel. Libraries in research establishments and universities where food science, food technology, nutrition, aquaculture, fisheries and biological sciences are studied and taught should have copies of this important publication on their shelves.

The global market for seafood products continues to increase year by year. Food safety considerations are as crucial as ever in this sector, and higher standards of quality are demanded even as products are shipped greater distances around the world. The current global focus on the connection between diet and health drives growth in the industry and offers commercial opportunities on a number of fronts. There is great interest in the beneficial effects of marine functional compounds such as omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids. Seafoods are well-known as low calorie foods, and research continues into the nutritional effects on, for example, obesity and heart disease. In addition, by-products of marine food processing can be used in nutraceutical applications. This book is a resource for those interested in the latest advances in the science and technology of seafood quality and safety as well as new developments in the nutritional effects and applications of marine foods. It includes chapters on the practical evaluation of seafood quality; novel approaches in preservation techniques; flavour chemistry and analysis; textural quality and measurement; packaging; the control of food-borne pathogens and seafood toxins. New research on the health-related aspects of marine food intake are covered, as well as the use of seafoods as sources of bioactives and nutraceuticals. The book is directed at scientists and technologists in academia, government laboratories and the seafood industries, including quality managers, processors and sensory scientists.