Recent Advances in Marine Biotechnology
Seafood Safety and Human Health
Milton Fingerman and R. Nagabhushanam (eds.): Deparment of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Tulane University, USA
ISBN 978-1-57808-204-9; 2002; 328 Pages; US $ 98.60      Buy Now


As the world's human population continues to grow, there is greater urgency to increase the yield of seafood from the oceans. There is also need to guard against naturally occuring toxins and pathogenic organisms that are capable of contaminating this food supply. It is imperative to detect the presence of these toxins and environmental conditions which favor the microorganisms that are the sources of these toxins, in order to ensure food safety. Marine biotechnology has a major role at the forefront in assuring that our seafood is safe, and has begun to provide impressive successes in assuring that it will be so.