Nutrition and Dietetics

Food Toxicology

Food toxicology is the study of the nature, effects, properties, detection and identification of toxic substances in food and their disease manifestation in humans. Food contaminants are the substances included unintentionally in Foods.  Heavy metals, Radioactive elements and the packing materials used in food processing are such substances checked for the quality. Key words are Toxicity levels in food and Food Toxicants, Toxic Microbial Metabolites, Food Interactions & Allergic Reactions, Genetically Engineered Food, Food Adulteration, Risk Assessment.