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Food spoilage

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• Food -- Microbiology
• Food -- Preservation
• Food adulteration and inspection

• Spoilage of food

• Open Shelf-Life Dating of Food (1979), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• An Evaluation of the Role of Microbiological Criteria for Foods and Food Ingredients (1985), by National Research Council Food and Nutrition Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Bad Bug Book: Foodborne Pathogenic Microorganisms and Natural Toxins Handbook (second edition, 2012), by Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (U.S.) (PDF with commentary at fda.gov)

• The Thermal-Death-Point of Micro-Organisms Found in "Spoiled" Canned Fruit (thesis, Michigan Agricultural College, 1901), by Fleta Paddock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Technology of Food Preservation (revised and augmented edition; Westport, CT: Avi Pub. Co., 1963), by Norman W. Desrosier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The A.B.C. of Canning: Preserving, Drying, Smoking and Pickling of Foods (Chicago: Pub. for Culinary Arts Institute by Consolidated Book Publishers, c1942), ed. by Ruth Berolzheimer, illust. by Ruth Burgess and Carolyn W. Bowerman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sterilization in Food Technology: Theory, Practice, and Calculations (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1957), by C. Olin Ball and F. C. W. Olson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Agricultural Process Engineering (first edition; New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1955), by S. M. Henderson and R. L. Perry (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Preservation of Food: Home Canning (Toronto: Ontario Dept. of Agriculture, 1917), by Ethel Chapman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• War Food: Practical and Economical Methods of Keeping Vegetables, Fruits and Meats (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1917), by Amy L. Handy (page images at Wisconsin)
• Victory Gardens: Handbook of the Victory Garden Committee, War services, Pennsylvania State Council of Defense (1944), by Warren Bryan Mack, Helen Marshall Eliason, and Pauline Beery Mack, contrib. by Edward Martin and Marion Margery Scranton (illustrated HTML at earthlypursuits.com)
• The A.B.C. of Canning: Preserving, Drying, Smoking and Pickling of Foods (Chicago: Pub. for Culinary Arts Institute by Consolidated Book Publishers, c1942), ed. by Ruth Berolzheimer, illust. by Ruth Burgess and Carolyn W. Bowerman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canned Fruit, Preserves and Jellies: Household Methods of Preparation (USDA Farmer's Bulletin #203; Washington: GPO, 1917), by Maria Parloa (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Canned Fruit, Preserves and Jellies: Household Methods of Preparation (Chicago et al.: Saalfield Pub. Co., c1917), by Maria Parloa (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Preservation of Food: Home Canning (Toronto: Ontario Dept. of Agriculture, 1917), by Ethel Chapman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• A Queens Delight: or, The Art of Preserving, Conserving and Candying; As Also a Right Knowledge of Making Perfumes, and Distilling the Most Excellent Waters (London: Printed by E. Tyler and R. Holt for N. Brooke, 1671) (Gutenberg text)
• The Queens Closet Opened: Incomparable Secrets in Physick, Chyrurgery, Preserving, Candying, and Cookery; As They Were Presented to the Queen (fourth edition corrected; London: Printed for N. Brooks, 1658) (page images in Barcelona)
• A True Gentlewomans Delight, Wherein is Contained All Manner Of Cookery; Together with Preserving, Conserving, Drying And Candying (London: W. I. Gent, 1653), by Elizabeth Grey Kent (HTML at Michigan)

• Women's Work and Chicano Families: Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1987), by Patricia Zavella (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Commercial Canning in New Jersey: History and Early Development (Trenton: New Jersey Agricultural Society, 1951), by Mary B. Sim (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Story of Salmon (Seattle: Gateway Printing Co., ca. 1920), by Carlisle Packing Company (page images at washingtonruralheritage.org)

• The Story of Salmon (Seattle: Gateway Printing Co., ca. 1920), by Carlisle Packing Company (page images at washingtonruralheritage.org)

• War Food: Practical and Economical Methods of Keeping Vegetables, Fruits and Meats (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1917), by Amy L. Handy (page images at Wisconsin)

• Canned Fruit, Preserves and Jellies: Household Methods of Preparation (USDA Farmer's Bulletin #203; Washington: GPO, 1917), by Maria Parloa (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Canned Fruit, Preserves and Jellies: Household Methods of Preparation (Chicago et al.: Saalfield Pub. Co., c1917), by Maria Parloa (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ensuring Safe Food: From Production to Consumption, by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Food Hygiene Quarterly Scientific Journal (in Persian) (partial serial archives)

• Pesticide Residues in Food: Technologies for Detection (OTA-F-398; 1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Food Defect Action Levels: Levels of Natural or Unavoidable Defects in Foods That Present No Health Hazards for Humans (1995; last edited 2005), by Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (U.S.) (HTML at fda.gov)
• Perspectives on Retail Food Grading (1977), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• The Food Defect Action Levels: Levels of Natural or Unavoidable Defects in Foods That Present No Health Hazards for Humans (1995; last edited 2005), by Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (U.S.) (HTML at fda.gov)
• Ensuring Safe Food: From Production to Consumption, by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Pesticide Residues in Food: Technologies for Detection (OTA-F-398; 1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children (1993), by National Research Council Committee on Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Cattle Inspection (1990), by National Research Council Food and Nutrition Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Vindicação de José James Forrester Contra as Imputações a elle Feitas no Parecer da Direcção da Associação Commercial do Porto de 15 de Março de 1845; e Observações Sobre o que no dito Parecer se Assevera Respeito ao Vinho do Porto : Com hum Post-Scriptum Sobre o Folheto Intitulado A Questão dos Vinhos do Douro, Considerada Politicamente (in Portuguese; Porto: Typ. Commercial, 1845), by Joseph James Forrester (page images at HathiTrust)

• Diseases Transmitted by Foods (A Classification and Summary) (second edition; Atlanta: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, Center for Professional Development and Training, 1982), by Frank L. Bryan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Environmental Contaminants in Food (1979), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children (1993), by National Research Council Committee on Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Effects on Human Health of Subtherapeutic Use of Antimicrobials in Animal Feeds (1980), by Assembly of Life Sciences (U.S.) (page images at NAP)

• Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children (1993), by National Research Council Committee on Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Use of Drugs in Food Animals: Benefits and Risks, by National Research Council Board on Agriculture (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Agriculture, Trade, and Environment: Achieving Complementary Policies (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Environmental Contaminants in Food (1979), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• The Use of Drugs in Food Animals: Benefits and Risks, by National Research Council Board on Agriculture (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Poultry Inspection: The Basis for a Risk-Assessment Approach, by National Research Council Food and Nutrition Board (page images with commentary at NAP)