Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Glossary -- 1 Plant Toxins and Human Health -- 2 Bacterial Pathogens and Toxins in Foodborne Disease -- 3 Shellfish Toxins -- 4 Mycotoxins in Cereal Grains, Nuts and Other Plant Products -- 5 Pesticides: Toxicology and Residues in Food -- 6 Polychlorinated Biphenyls -- 7 Dioxins in Milk, Meat, Eggs and Fish -- 8 Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Diverse Foods -- 9 Heavy Metals -- 10 Dietary Nitrates, Nitrites and N-nitroso Compounds and Cancer Risk with Special Emphasis on the Epidemiological Evidence -- 11 Adverse Reactions to Food Additives -- 12 Migration of Compounds from Food Contact Materials and Articles -- 13 Veterinary Products: Residues and Resistant Pathogens -- 14 Prion Diseases: Meat Safety and Human Health Implications -- 15 The Safety Evaluation of Genetically Modified Foods -- 16 Genetically Modified Foods: Potential Human Health Effects -- 17 Radionuclides in Foods: the Post-Chernobyl Evidence -- 18 Radionuclides in Foods: American Perspectives -- 19 Widespread and Continuing Concerns over Food Safety -- Index.