Toxins/Toxicants in Food

• WWW Virtual Library Public Health - Food Safety
• The Big Picture Book of Viruses

Foodborne Diseases

• Foodborne Illness
• Causes and sources of foodborne illness
• Common Causes of Foodborne illness
• Food storage, food spoilage, and foodborne illness
• Long-term sequelae to food borne diseases
• The "Bad Bug Book" - Foodborne Pathogenic Microorganisms and Natural Toxins
• Foodborne disease
• Foodborne Illness Information Center
1. Parasites
• Foodborne Parasites WEB pages
2. Infections
• Foodborne & Infection
• Outbreaks of shigella sonnei infection associated with eating fresh parsley
1. Bacterial infections
2. Viral infections
• Viral food poisoning
3. "Natural" foodborne toxins
• Natural toxins - in sea food
• Natural Toxins in Food
1. Mycotoxins
• Mycotoxin Information and Studies
• Mycotoxins
• Questions and Answers about Mycotoxins
• Fusarium Mycotoxins
• Mycotoxins - short description
• Mycotoxins - quick definition.
2. Aflatoxins
• Aflatoxins-Home Page
• Aflatoxins - Definition
• Aflatoxin - National Food Safetly database.
3. Trichothecene
4. Zearalenone
4. Mushrooms
• MykoWeb: Mushrooms, Fungi, Mycology
• Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms
1. Amatoxins
2. Phallotoxins
5. Poisonous plants
• Poisonous Plants Information Database
• Guide to Poisonous plants
• Poisonous Plants Home Page
• Overview of Poisonous Plants
• Poisonous Plants Slide Viewer
• Poisonous Plands and Plant Parts
• Common Poisonous Plants
• Poisonous plants
• Poisonous Plants of the Western United States
• Poisonous Plants of the Southern United States - Lots of pictures!
• Yew Toxicity
1. Gastorenteritis-inducing plants
2. Digitalis-containing plants
3. Atropine-containing plants
4. Plants affecting the nervous system
5. Plants containing Cyanide Glycosides
6. Nitrate-accumulating plants
• Nitrate poisoning
• Nitrate poisoning
7. Dermatoxic plants
• Poison ivy, western poison oak, and poison sumac - how poisoning occurs

Chemical contaminants

1. Mutagens formed upon high temperature cooking
1. Polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
• Polyaromatic hydrocarbons/Fats
2. Cooked food mutagens
Chemicals added during production & processing
3. Database of Mutagens in Cooked food
4. Committee on mutagenicity of chemicals in food, consumer products and the environment (COM)
5. The food-derived heterocyclic amines
2. Chemicals added during production & processing
• Environmental Chemical Contaminants and Pesticides
• Food contaminants
1. Nitrates, sodium, phosphate, metals
2. Pesticides, herbicides
• Questions about pestcides in food
• Pesticides and Food Safety
• A Consumer's Guide to Pesticides and Food Safety
3. Antibiotics
• Antibiotics in Animals
4. Growth hormones
• Impact of Technology on Meat Safety