Cover -- Food and Environment: The Quest for a Sustainable Future -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Contents -- Section 1: Impact of food production on the environment -- Environmental impacts of local food production in Japan and changes needed for future sustainability -- Agrarian urban architecture -- Dryland crop production and greenhouse gas emissions in Canada: a regional comparison -- Assessment of hazards in local soy-cheese processing: implications on health and environment in Oyo State, Nigeria -- Use of blast furnace slag and water treatment residues to reduce the runoff of dissolved reactive phosphorus from agricultural lands -- Environmental and economic evaluation of conventional and organic production systems in the Canadian Prairie provinces -- Section 2: Contamination of food -- Microbial growth models for shelf life prediction in an Icelandic cod supply chain -- Risk assessment of exposure to multiple mycotoxins in food -- Emerging contaminants in consumer products: environmental fate and transfer to human food-chain -- Soil composition of community gardens: are there quality concerns? -- Degradation of histamine in tuna soup by diamine oxidase (DAO) -- Microbiological quality of fresh (unpasteurized) fruit juices in Makkah, Saudi Arabia -- Air fungal contamination in ten hospitals' food units from Lisbon -- Section 3: Food processing issues -- Quality indices, polyphenols, terpenic acids, squalene, fatty acid profile, and sterols in virgin olive oil produced by organic versus non-organic cultivation method -- Nutrient constituents, functional attributes and in vitro protein digestibility of the seeds of the Lathyrus plant -- Household processing and dissemination of tomato paste technology -- Section 4: Traceability and temperature control.

Multicriteria model for the selection of traceability and temperature control technologies along the cold chain -- Novel solutions supporting inter-organisational quality and information management -- Quality losses in deep-frozen foodstuffs at cyclically modified storage temperatures -- Section 5: Characterisation of foodplants -- The phytotoxicity of 2,4,6-Trichlorophenol and Phenol to local agricultural plant species in China -- Siddha herbs for obesity -- Author Index.