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Effect of food processing on foreign bodies - |
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Understand how the effects of food processing on foreign bodies can influence foreign body identification and be used to help determine the point of contamination. Foreign body contamination is of great concern to food companies. A foreign body incident can jeopardise consumer health, result in prosecution and significantly undermine a company's reputation. Identifying the precise nature of the foreign body, and the stage of the process at which the contamination arose, is often essential in preventing recurrences. For processed foods, however, these tasks are made all the more difficult because processing itself affects different foreign bodies in different ways. Using bread baking as a case study, this review describes the effects of heat treatment on foreign bodies as diverse as metal, glass, plastic, wood, medical dressings, pharmaceutical tablets and capsules, and insects. Photographs are used extensively to compare the foreign bodies prior to and after baking. For each material, clear conclusions are presented on how the heat process does or does not affect the foreign body and the significance of this for foreign body identification. By providing a valuable supplement to CCFRA's Guidelines for the Identification of Foreign Bodies Reported from Food and Foreign bodies in food: guidelines for their prevention, control and detection, this review will be of interest to anyone in the food industry responsible for dealing with foreign body incidents.Contents:
Softcover - 54 pages |