TY - BOOK AU - Cooper,Julia AU - Niggli,Urs AU - Leifert,Carlo ED - Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau (Switzerland) ED - Nafferton Ecological Farming Group. TI - Handbook of organic food safety and quality T2 - Woodhead Publishing in food science, technology, and nutrition SN - 9781845690106 (hbk. : Woodhead : alk. paper) U1 - 363.192 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Boca Raton, Fla., Cambridge, England PB - CRC Press, Woodhead KW - Health Food KW - standards KW - Food Contamination KW - prevention & control KW - Food Industry KW - Safety Management KW - methods KW - Organic farming KW - Handbooks, manuals, etc KW - Natural foods KW - Food KW - Safety measures KW - Quality N1 - CONTENTS Introduction / C. Leifert -- Part I: Organic food safety and quality : introduction and over view History and concepts of food quality and safety in organic food production and processing / U. Niggli -- Nutritional quality of foods / C.J. Seal and K. Brandt -- Quality assurance, inspection and certification of organic foods / B. van Elzakker and J. Neuendorff -- A new food quality concept based on life processes / J. Bloksma, M. Norholt, M. Huber, G-J. van der Burgst and L. van de Vijver -- Food consumers and organic agriculture / E. Oughton and C. Ritson -- Part II: Organic livestock foods Effects of organic and conventional feeding regimes and husbandry methods on the quality of milk and dairy products / R.F. Weller, C.L. Marley and J.M. Moorby -- Effects of organic husbandry methods and feeding regimes on poultry quality / H. Hirt and E. Zeltner -- Quality in organic, low-input and conventional pig production / A. Sundrum -- Organic livestock husbandry methods and the microbiological safety of ruminant produciton systems / F. Deiz-Gonzalez -- Reducing antibiotic use for mastitis treatment in organic dairy production systems / P. Klocke, M. Walkenhorst, and G. Butler -- Reducing anthelmintic use for the control of internal parasites in organic livestock systems / V. Maurer, P. Hördegen and H. Hertzberg -- Part III: Organic crop foods Dietary exposure to pestcides from organic and conventional food production systems levels and potential health impacts of nutritionally relevant phytochemicals in organic and conventional food production Improving the quality and shelf life of fruit from organic production systems e.tc Part IV: The organic food chain: processing, trading and quality assurance post harvest strategies to reduce enteric bacteria contamination of vegetable, nut and fruit products fair trade: a basis for adequate producer's incomes, farm reinvestment and quality and safety focussed production e.tc ; Includes bibliographical references and index ER -