How Poisonous Is Our Food? The Food Risk Analysis Journal Explores Risks

Sept. 26, 2011 - PRLog -- Rijeka, Croatia, September, 2011-InTech Open access publisher, building on its collection and variety of highly successful scientific journals, announces the first issue of the International Food Risk Analysis Journal (IFRAJ), published under the Open Access model and edited in collaboration with the authoritative Food Directorate at Health Canada and Food Standards Australia/New Zealand (FSANZ). The journal is also available in French.

Under the editorship of Dr. Samuel Godefroy, Dr. Paul Brent, and Dr. Sebastien La Vieille, IFRAJ aims to gather reports on the most relevant developments in risk assessment in food chemical, microbiological and nutritional safety issues, placing itself at the forefront of unlocking the knowledge to a wide audience of regulatory experts as well as professionals and researchers in the field. With the likes of the Canadian Food Directorate and FSANZ, both regulating bodies developing standards across the food supply chain, InTech raises the stakes for the world-wide food industry by joining the current debate between governments, consumer's institutions and research regarding food safety today. Dr. Samuel Godefroy, addressing the international scientific community and beyond, underlines the significance of this newly-established partnership between InTech and Canada's most authoritative institution for food safety as follows,

"Health Canada's Food Directorate is proud to be a supporter of the International Food Risk Analysis Journal (IFRAJ). Our ability to publish the outcomes of our risk analysis activities in a peer reviewed open-access journal such as IFRAJ will contribute significantly to achieving our commitment to transparency by making available the scientific underpinnings that guide Canadian standard setting decisions. As the Co-Editor in Chief of IFRAJ, I invite all of our peers and colleagues in the field of food regulatory science to submit their work for publication in IFRAJ and further contribute in disseminating the knowledge base supporting food regulatory decisions internationally".

Among other, the first issue of the journal puts its focus on carcinogenic food contaminants and salmonella enteritis contamination, intently challenging the current regulations on food safety and questioning the level of human exposure to dna-reactive carcinogens. Quite righteously. In fact, the World Health Organisation reports that in industrialised countries up to 30% of populations suffer from foodborne diseases each year caused by viruses contracted through food, such as salmonellosis or Hepatits A. As for carcinogens, a recent USA Today article placed its attention on revealing that the  estimated a striking 6% dying from cancer related to food additives and chemical pesticides.

To start reading the journal please follow the link below:

International Journal of Food Risk Analysis

IFRAJ is now accepting submissions from perspective authors to be considered for publication and included in the future issues of the journal.

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