Health Benefits of Organic Food: Effects of the Environment

The last two decades have seen a marked increase in demand for organic produce and a substantial growth of this niche market. This is attributable to public concern regarding the impact of chemical herbicides, pesticides, fertilizers, growth-promoting agents and feed additives in plant and animal...

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Những tác giả chính: Givens, D. Lan, Baxter, Samantha, Minihane, Anne Marie, Shaw, Elizabeth
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spelling oai:scholar.dlu.edu.vn:DLU123456789-367612023-11-11T05:25:49Z Health Benefits of Organic Food: Effects of the Environment Givens, D. Lan Baxter, Samantha Minihane, Anne Marie Shaw, Elizabeth Environment Effects The last two decades have seen a marked increase in demand for organic produce and a substantial growth of this niche market. This is attributable to public concern regarding the impact of chemical herbicides, pesticides, fertilizers, growth-promoting agents and feed additives in plant and animal production on the integrity and safety of the products. In addition, public concern about the environment is likely to have played a part. Organic food is usually promoted as containing fewer contaminants, more nutrients and as being less likely to cause food poisoning as well as having a positive effect on the environment. Some of these attributes are difficult to quantify and there are also suggestions of potentially harmful consequences of organic production such as increased mycotoxin contamination in products from plants not treated with fungicides. These positions to some extent reflect the views of specific interest groups and need to be presented as part of a wider analysis. Moreover, although the ways in which organic food is produced is largely prescribed by the regulatory authorities, the impact that a wide range of environmental factors might have on any differences between organic and conventional food has not been examined to any extent. This book is the result of a Workshop. The Workshop brought together a multidisciplinary group of experts from fields including nutrition, animal science, soil science, environmental microbiology, toxicology, consumer science and medicine. 2014-03-27T02:57:44Z 2014-03-27T02:57:44Z 2008 Book 978 1 84593 459 0 https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/36761 en application/pdf CABI
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Effects
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Effects
Givens, D. Lan
Baxter, Samantha
Minihane, Anne Marie
Shaw, Elizabeth
Health Benefits of Organic Food: Effects of the Environment
description The last two decades have seen a marked increase in demand for organic produce and a substantial growth of this niche market. This is attributable to public concern regarding the impact of chemical herbicides, pesticides, fertilizers, growth-promoting agents and feed additives in plant and animal production on the integrity and safety of the products. In addition, public concern about the environment is likely to have played a part. Organic food is usually promoted as containing fewer contaminants, more nutrients and as being less likely to cause food poisoning as well as having a positive effect on the environment. Some of these attributes are difficult to quantify and there are also suggestions of potentially harmful consequences of organic production such as increased mycotoxin contamination in products from plants not treated with fungicides. These positions to some extent reflect the views of specific interest groups and need to be presented as part of a wider analysis. Moreover, although the ways in which organic food is produced is largely prescribed by the regulatory authorities, the impact that a wide range of environmental factors might have on any differences between organic and conventional food has not been examined to any extent. This book is the result of a Workshop. The Workshop brought together a multidisciplinary group of experts from fields including nutrition, animal science, soil science, environmental microbiology, toxicology, consumer science and medicine.
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Baxter, Samantha
Minihane, Anne Marie
Shaw, Elizabeth
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