Handbook Of Seafood Quality Safety And Health Applications

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.

Editor Biography: ?smail Y�ksel Gen� is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of fishing and Processing Technology at the University of Suleyman Demirel where he has been faculty member since 2011. ?smail Y�ksel completed his M.Sc. at Suleyman Demirel University and he has been in Portugal for the research of his M.Sc. thesis. He has been in Denmark for his Ph.D thesis at Denmark Technical University (DTU) with a national grant that was provided by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). His research interests involve predictive modeling, shelf life prediction of seafood and interaction models to determine both the quality and safety of fishery products under different conditions. He has collaborated national and international projects on determination of quality and safety of seafood products, new product development and estimating the current situation of some fishery products to take precautions on quality and safety. He is still a member of scientific associations such as ISEKI-Food and International Association for Food Protection (IAFP). He has currently authored and co-authored seven peer-reviewed publications and attended more than twenty peer-reviewed national and international conferences. Book Description: Seafood and related products have an important place in the human diet; it provides for the protein needed and has a nutritional composition that has favorable health impacts on human beings. Considering the rapid increase in the world population and the demand in terms of protein needs that are provided by seafood, the necessary need to assure the quality and safety of seafood products has been prioritized. Due to nutritional composition, neutral pH, high moisture content, weak connective tissue and living environment (fresh and seawater), seafood is very perishable. Maintaining the quality and safety of seafood needs higher attention compared to other food products. This handbook compiles recent methods and applications, as well as technologies utilized to guarantee the quality and safety of various types of seafood from harvesting to the retail level. The status of emerging and hurdle technology applications, genomic, mathematical and computer-based methods, quality economics together with chemical, sensory and microbiological changes, and quality/safety of seafood products are reviewed and discussed in this book. The emphasis on less-known or under-valued species from different locales was intentional. This handbook is an abridged, streamlined but relatively comprehensive reference for food engineers and technologists, producers from the industry, and undergraduate and graduate students studying this field of academia. Target Audience: Undergraduate and graduate students from the departments of Food/seafood Engineers and technicians from food industry Academicians from the institutes and universities whose research interests lie on determination of seafood quality and safety

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