From contaminated infant formula to a spate of all-too familiar headlines in recent years, food safety has emerged as one of the harsher realities behind China's economic miracle. Tainted beef, horse meat and dioxin outbreaks in the western world have also put food safety in the global spotlight.

Food Safety in China: Science, Technology, Management and Regulation presents a comprehensive overview of the history and current state of food safety in China, along with emerging regulatory trends and the likely future needs of the country. Although the focus is on China, global perspectives are presented in the chapters and 33 of the 99 authors are from outside of China.

Timely and illuminating, this book offers invaluable insights into our understanding of a critical link in the increasingly globalized complex food supply chain of today's world.

About the editors
Joseph J. Jen is the co-chair of the Food Safety Expert Panel of the International Union of Food Science and Technology, chair of the Advisory Council of Bor S. Luh Food Safety Research Center, Shanghai Jaio Tong University, and the editor of Food Control. Dr. Jen was also a former undersecretary of US Department of Agriculture in charge of Research, Education and Economics.

Junshi Chen is a senior advisor at the China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment. Dr. Chen is first academician from the food science and nutrition field in China, and the most respected scientist in these fields. He is also the official representative of China for the CODEX Alimentarius.