M.H. Brown, (ed.), ‘Meat Microbiology’, Elsever Applied Science
Publishers, London, 1982.
ICMSF, ‘Micro-organisms in Foods. Vol. 6, Microbial ecology of food
commodities’, Blackwell Academic & Professional, London 1998,
615pp.
J.I. Pitt and A.D. Hocking, ‘Fungi and Food Spoilage’, 2nd Edn.,
Blackie Academic, London, 1997, 593pp.
An excellent guide to the identification of many fungi found associated
with foods and with chapters dealing with the mould spoilage of
specific commodities.
R.K. Robinson (ed.) Dairy microbiology handbook, 3rd edn., Wiley
Interscience 2002, 765pp.
ICMSF, ‘Microbial Ecology of Foods. Volume 2 Food Commodities’,
Academic Press, New York, 1980, 664pp.
Chapters 6, 7 and 8
There is a very substantial, generally high quality literature on food-
borne illness from which we can recommend:
T.J. Mitchell, A.F. Godfree and D.E.S. Stewart-Tull, (eds.), ‘Toxins’,
Society for Applied Bacteriology Symposium Series Number 27, 1998,
160pp.
ICMSF, ‘Micro-organisms in Foods. Vol. 5, Microbiological specifica-
tions of food pathogens’, Blackwell Academic & Professional,
London, 1996, 513pp.
M.P. Doyle, L.R. Beuchat and T.J. Montville (eds) Food microbiology:
fundamentals and frontiers. ASM Press, Washington D.C. 2001, 872 pp.
D.O. Cliver and H.R. Riemann (eds), Foodborne diseases, Academic
Press, San Diego, 2002, 411pp.
M. Griffiths (ed), Understanding pathogen behaviour, Woodhead
Publishing, Cambridge, UK 2005, 611pp.
Y. Motarjemi and M. Adams (eds), Emerging foodborne pathogens,
Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge, UK 2006, 634pp.
A.H.W. Hauschild and K.L. Dodds,(eds.), ‘Clostridium botulinum: Ecol-
ogy and Control in Foods’, Marcel Dekker, New York, 1993, 412pp.
M. Richmond, ‘The Microbiological Safety of Food Part 1. Report of
the Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food’, HMSO,
London, 1990, 147pp.
M. Richmond, ‘The Microbiological Safety of Food Part II. Report of
the Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food’, HMSO,
London, 1990, 220pp.
The two parts of the Richmond report are primarily of relevance to
the UK but will nonetheless contain much of interest to a broader
readership.
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