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Fundamentals of Microanalytical Entomology, A Practical Guide to Detecting and Identifying Filth in Foods

Editor: Alan R. Olsen

Associate Editor: 
Thomas H. Sidebottom

Editorial Assistant: 
Sherry A. Knight

U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Description | Features | Contents | Audience |
Publication Information and Price
 

Written by practicing regulatory experts!

Description

This text offers insight into the practical applications of microanalytical entomology in the laboratory and in the field of consumer protection. This is the only guide that gives an overview of the subject from initial analysis of a product to interpreting significance of final results.

Top of page Complete insect illustrations throughout and an insect fragment identification discussion covers all pests that are found in foods. Micrographs illustrate a complete reference on identifying types of hair contaminants found in various foods. Chapters are written by practicing regulatory experts.
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Features

  • Offers and overview of microanalytical entomology
  • Provides complete insect illustrations and an insect fragment identification discussion
  • Offers a hair contaminants guide
  • Combines knowledge and experience of practicing regulatory experts

Audience

Food scientists, food wholesalers and retailers, consumers

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Contents

  • Introduction
    A.R. Olsen
  • Regulatory Procedures
    J.E. Boese, P.M. Brickey, Jr., and A.R. Olsen
  • Identification of Filth
    A.R. Olsen
  • Ametabolous and Hemimetabolous Insects
    T.H. Sidebottom
  • Beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera)
    J.J. Madenjian
  • Flies (Insecta: Diptera)
    A.R. Olsen
  • Moths (Insecta: Lepidoptera)
    A.R. Olsen
  • Ants and Parasitoids (Insecta: Hymenoptera)
    N.J. Richter and V.K. Avaritt III
  • Mites (Archnida: Acarina)
    A.R. Olsen and R.W. Potter
  • Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae)
    A.R. Olsen, W.E. Savary, and D. Ubick
  • Other Arthropods
    A.R. Olsen
  • Hairs
    D.H. Ludwig and J.R. Bryce
  • Ethnoentomology: Insects as Food
    A.R. Olsen
  • Reference Collections and Materials
    H.G. Semey
  • Laboratory Procedures
    E.C. Washbon and K.A. Halcrow
  • Quality Assurance
    R.A. Baldwin
  • Forensic Evidence Development
    M.L. Zimmerman
  • Reflections on Foodborne Filth in Relation
    to Human Disease
    J.R . Gorham

Publication and Pricing

September 1995, 320 pp., ISBN: 0-8493-8925-9

$159.95 (as of May 2003)

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