Food Analysis

With advances in techniques and technology coupled with the growing need to deal withthe problems associated with quality assurance, product development, and food safety,the science of food analysis has developed rapidly in recent years. Food Analysis: Principlesand Techniques provides an unparalleled source of information for all aspects of thisfield, filling your needs for up-to-date, detailed treatment of the methods of food analysis.Volume 2 of this important 8-volume treatise focuses on essential physicochemical techniques,ranging from the measurement of physical parameters, such as temperature, solubility,and viscosity, to the determination of food components at the supramolecular andatomic levels. Incorporating the latest developments in instrumentation that facilitate rapid,quantitative analysis, Physicochemical Techniques assures you comprehensive, accuratecoverage that you can turn to time and time again.Consolidating the expertise of renowned international authorities, Food Analysis: Principlesand Techniques serves as the complete, state-of-the-art reference and the basis forcontinuing development. For all food analysts in industry, government, and academiaincludingfood scientists, chemists, biochemists, nutritionists, environmental chemists,and microbiologists-this major resource will be the standard by which other works arecompared . Also, graduate students in food science and nutrition will find each volume ofthis work indispensable in their studies.

This groundbreaking book is the first to provide state-of-the-art information on the current changes and developments in European food and agricultural marketing. Food and Agribusiness Marketing in Europe contains broad and up-to-date coverage of agricultural and food marketing by experts in a variety of European countries including Germany, Greece, Italy, the United Kingdom, France, Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, and Hungary. With chapters selected by the famous marketing specialist Matthew Meulenberg of The Netherlands, this enlightening book allows food and marketing professionals to gain new perspectives on the changing roles of food retailing and food industry in agricultural marketing and the structure of agriculture and food markets.This insightful book introduces readers to the common factors influencing European food marketing today including the stagnating volume of food demand, severe competition between suppliers of agricultural and food products, the overall shift in agricultural marketing towards more market-consumer orientation, and the resulting concern about product development, branding, and customer relationships. Major national differences in food and agricultural marketing in each country are also analyzed, in particular, the problems of implementing European Community legislation in the face of tremendous divergences among member countries in their needs, expectations, and priorities. Some of the other important topics covered in this in-depth book include:European food consumption and consumersfood retailing in Europethe impact of the Common Agricultural policy and other government policies on agricultural marketingthe conduct of agricultural marketing institutions and agribusinesses and their marketing performancesagricultural and food marketing channels in European countries Food and Agribusiness Marketing in Europe is the first resource available that provides essential information on the tremendous changes in food and agricultural marketing in Europe. It is an invaluable reference on European marketing for students and teachers of agricultural marketing, European-oriented agribusiness managers, and internationally oriented agriculture policymakers who need to develop an understanding of food marketing developments in this area of the world.

Introduction to the Treatise, Preface, Contributors, Contents of Other Volumes, 1. Temperature, 2. Solubility, 3. Viscosity, 4. The Light Microscope in Food Analysis, 5. Ultraviolet and Visible Spectrophotometry, 6. Optical Activity and Structure Of Biological Molecules, 7. Fluorescence and Phosphorescence, 8. Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, 9. Atomic Absorption, 10. Infrared Spectrophotometry in Food Technology, 11. The Application of Raman Spectroscopy to the Characterization of Food, 12. Size Exclusion Chromatography with Low-angle Laser Light-scattering Detection, References, Index