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The book is revealing how modern technology has drastically affected our environmentally based, technology enhanced food supply. Exposing myths and presenting extensive, meticulous research on the history of pesticides, pollution, organic agriculture, and much more. It is a very highly recommended, fact-filled primer, which will provide the non-specialist general reader an invaluable instructional background. Arguing that humans are inherently technological beings and that technology has supported immense human progress over the past century. Overall, the book is a valuable resource for its soup-to-nuts information approach. The book, a gold mine of useful information for post graduate students and researchers of relevant disciplines and also it should hold the attention of those having in recent trends and advances about the world of food safety.

Contents: Chapter 1: Challenges and Opportunities of Food System; Chapter 2: Food Safety Issues; Chapter 3: Biotechnology and Foods; Chapter 4: Benefits of Genetically Modified Foods; Chapter 5: Safety of Genetically Modified Foods; Chapter 6: Imperatives and Challenges for Rice Biotechnology; Chapter 7: Evaluation of Food Safety; Chapter 8: Recommended International Code of Practice-General Principles of Food Hygiene.