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A Guide to Microorganisms and their control

by Dr Greg Jones

Details of the key growth characteristics of individual microorganisms and microbial groups-at your fingertips in a series of one-page summaries

Risk Assessment and management of raw materials

by Sue Emond

This guideline provides specific guidance on the application of risk assessment techniques to identify, evaluate and control hazards associated with raw materials in a food, drink or feed manufacturing environment...

Validation of cleaning to remove food allergens

by Dr Helen Arrowsmith

Ensure that the cleaning procedure you use to remove food allergens is effective

Heat processing of packaged foods: guidelines for establishing the thermal process

by Nick May

Ensure that your products receive an adequate heat process and that their safety and quality is optimised

Traceability in the food and feed chain: general principles and basic system requirements

by Dr Chris Knight

Ensure that you have a robust system in place that identifies the source (time and place) of all incoming materials, records how they were mixed, and identifies when and where they were dispatched, so that appropriate...

The Book of the Goat - Containing Full Particulars of the Various Breeds of Goats and Their Profitable Management

by , H. Pegler

The Book of the Goat in its original edition was the first work devoted to the subject printed in the English language. First published in London in the 1880s, it is now a very scarce and desirable book in any...

Guidelines on the Reuse of Potable Water for Food Processing Operations

by Greg Jones

"Guidelines on the reuse of potable water for food processing operations provides help on the assessment of microbiological, chemical and physical hazards that can enter potable water following its first use...

Learning Native Wisdom: What Traditional Cultures Teach Us about Subsistence, Sustainability, and Spirituality

by Gary Holthaus

Many native North American cultures have origins that predate Confucius, who lived five hundred years before the birth of Christ. For generations the people of these traditions have thrived under conditions...

Manufacturing Yogurt and Fermented Milks

by Ramesh C. Chandan & Arun Kilara

Melding the hands-on experience of producing yogurt and fermented milks over four decades with the latest in scientific research in the dairy industry, editor Chandan and his associate editors have assembled...

Chicken Health for Dummies

by Julie Gauthier & Ludlow

Everything you need to care for and keep happy, healthy chickens

With directives on diagnosing and treating sick or ailing chickens, as well as general information on how to keep chickens in peak condition, Chicken...

an Asparagus: Its Culture for Home Use and for Market - A Practical Treatise on the Planting, Cultivation, Harvesting, Marketing

by , M. Hexamer

Originally published in 1901, this book contains a guide to the planting, cultivation, harvesting, marketing, and preserving of asparagus, with notes on its history and botany. Contents: Historical Sketch; Botany;...

Statistics for Aquaculture

by Ram C. Bhujel

Published in cooperation with the United States Aquaculture Society

A strong background in statistics is essential for researchers in any scientific field in order to design experiments, survey research, analyze...

Soil Science Simplified

by Neal Eash, Cary J. Green & Aga Razvi

Soil Science Simplified, Fifth Edition is a significant update and revision of the classic introductory soils text. The new edition includes greater coverage of non-agricultural uses of soils ranging from municipal...

Sustainability in the Food Industry

by Cheryl J. Baldwin

Sustainability is beginning to transform the food industry with environmental, economic and social factors being considered, evaluated and implemented throughout the supply chain like never before. Sustainability...

Bioeconomics of Fisheries Management

by Lee G. Anderson & Juan Carlos Seijo

Fisheries Economics has always been an interdisciplinary field of study with economic analysis based on stock population dynamics, but many published works have focused mainly on theoretical economic issues...

Reinventing the Chicken Coop: 14 Original Designs with Step-by-Step Building Instructions

by Kevin McElroy & Matthew Wolpe

Backyard chickens meet contemporary design! Matthew Wolpe and Kevin McElroy give you 14 complete building plans for chicken coops that range from the purely functional to the outrageously fabulous. One has a...

Limnology: Lake and River Ecosystems

by Robert G. Wetzel

Limnology is the study of the structural and functional interrelationships of organisms of inland waters as they are affected by their dynamic physical, chemical, and biotic environments. Limnology: Lake and...

Building Beehives for Dummies

by Howland Blackiston

The easy way to build your own beehives and beekeeping equipment

Building Beehives For Dummies is the follow-up book to the bestselling Beekeeping For Dummies. It provides everything you need to learn how to...

Agricultural Sustainability: Progress and Prospects in Crop Research

by Gurbir S. Bhullar & Navreet K. Bhullar

Collaboratively written by top international experts and established scientists in various fields of agricultural research, this book focuses on the state of food production and sustainability; the problems...

Animal Husbandry Regained: The Place of Farm Animals in Sustainable Agriculture

by John Webster

The farming of animals for meat and milk confronts a stark dilemma. While world demand from a growing and more affluent human population is increasing rapidly, there are strong counter-arguments that we should...