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Safety assurance of consumer goods has become a global challenge. The presence of natural and synthetic contaminants in food compromises food safety and poses a risk to public health. This book discusses biological and chemical food contaminants, predictive and detection methods of food toxicants, survival mechanism of food pathogens, legislation on microbial contaminants to prevent public health risks and strategies to mitigate contamination

Frontmatter -- Preface: Converging technologies from the nanoscale require enhanced ethics -- Forewords -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction: Overall vision of ethics in nanotechnology developments -- Embedding ethics in nanomedicine: Europe acted promptly -- List of contributing authors -- About the editors -- Part I: Highlights of ethics in nanotechnology -- 1 Nanoethics: Giving orientation to societal reflection -- Part II: Nanotechnology and ethical reflections -- 2 Toward a revitalized vision of ethics and safety for the revolutionary nanotechnologies -- 3 Nanotechnology: Ethical guidelines for a disruptive technology -- 4 Defining the nanoethics frontier -- 5 Application of nanotechnology for dental implants -- 6 Nanomaterial characterization for nanoethics -- Part III: Health, environment and industrial aspects of nanoethics -- 7 Ethical aspects of nanomaterials in industry -- 8 Militarization of nanotechnology -- 9 Nanotechnology in food: Ethics, industry practices, and regulatory frameworks -- 10 Ethical challenge of nanomedicine -- 11 Nanofood and ethical issues -- Part IV: Nanotechnology governance: Societal and legal aspects -- 12 Nanoethics for safe work: philosophical foundations of safer nanodesign protecting workplace health -- 13 Twenty years of nanoethics: Challenges, clarifications, and achievements -- Part V: Nanotechnology philosophy: Dilemmas and ethical issues -- 14 Christian thinking and acting in nanotechnologies: Reflection based on the principles and values of the Social Teaching of the Church based on apps concerning old people -- 15 Calibrating the balance: The ethics of regulating the production and use of nanotechnology applications -- 16 Importance of social morals in nanotechnology -- 17 Revitalizing nanoethics: Nanotechnology at the center of nanoethics -- Conclusion -- Index