Food hygiene and foreign bodies

Abstract: This chapter will consider the types of foreign bodies that are reported from food and how they get into the food. The control of foreign bodies will be considered in two main ways: firstly, methods for identifying foreign bodies in order to determine what they are and how they got into the food; and secondly, the various methods for preventing foreign bodies getting into food, and then detecting and removing foreign bodies from food products during food processing if they do get in. Finally, prospects for the future for each of these areas will be considered.