Download or read book Food and Beverage Mycology written by Larry R. Beuchat and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1987-08-31 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a work on the role of fungi in processed and unprocessed foods. In addition to offering practical and applied information on fungi associated with food and beverages this second edition now covers poisonous mushrooms. Topics include water activity, specific commodities, fungi and metabolities as human dietary components, health hazards and mycotoxin producers, and mycotoxin and fungal contaminant detection.