Importance of food safety and analysis
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Food safety and quality analysis is important to prevent health hazards from physical, chemical, or biological contaminants in both domestic and imported foods. Testing helps achieve competence in international food trade. Various analyses examine the physical characteristics, chemical composition, and presence of contaminants, toxins, and microbes in foods to ensure safety and quality parameters are met.
Importance of food safety and analysis
- 1. Importance of Food Safety and Quality Analysis Devinder Dhingra Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi
- 2. Health Hazards:- Physical Chemical Biological
- 3. Domestic Imported To achieve competence in international trade of food products
- 4. Physical Size, shape, refractions, bulk density, color, lustre, Sedimentation value Chemical Proximate composition / Gluten / Alcoholic acidity Uric acid Contaminants Lead, Arsenic , Mercury etc. Other Residues and contaminants insect / rodent excreta, hair Micro-biological Pesticide residues Organochlorine (DDT/BHC) / synthetic pyrethroids (Delta methrin) /organophosphate (DDVP/phosphine/malathion/pirimiphos methyl) Toxins: Aflatoxins B1/B2/G1/G2; Ochratoxin A; Mycotoxins, Ergot NOT: Vomitoxin, also known as deoxynivalenol (DON) Quality parameters of food grains