LibGuides: Food Safety Resources: Recommended Resources

Books

Knovel Life Sciences, Chemistry, Food Science & Metals/ Metallurgy Collection
Includes almost 500 fully-searchable handbooks and reference works on topics such as food science, biochemistry, biology, biotechnology, chemistry, and more.

Encyclopedia of Food Microbiology
2014, 2nd edition
Encyclopedia of Food Safety
2023, 2nd edition

Food Chemicals Codex
Compendium of internationally recognized standards for the identity, purity, and quality of food ingredients. Access to the Food Chemicals Codex is through the MSU Libraries subscription to USP-NF.

Databases

Food Science and Technology Abstracts (FSTA)
1969-
FSTA covers all areas of food science, food technology, and human nutrition, including basic food science, biotechnology, toxicology, packaging, and engineering. Some 1800 publications in over 40 languages are scanned regularly, including journals, reviews, standards, legislation, patents, books, theses, and conference proceedings.

IFIS has developed a helpful tutorial to using FSTA on the Web of Science platform. It is designed to give you an overview of FSTA content and the essential skills to search the FSTA database and find quality literature successfully.

CAB Abstracts
Covers the subject of agriculture in the broadest sense, including dairy science, food science, microbiology, human and animal nutrition, parasitology, and veterinary medicine.
PubMed (Medline)
A freely accessible online database of biomedical journal citations and abstracts created by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM®).
Biological Abstracts
Biological Abstracts is a comprehensive reference database covering life sciences journal literature. It covers the following fields: Botany, Microbiology, Pharmacology, Biochemistry, Evolutionary ecology, Kinseology, Neurology, and Toxicology. Coverage from 1926 to the present. Web of Science platform.
Biological & Agricultural Index Plus
1983-
Provides information from groundwater pollution to genetic engineering and covers the entire range of sciences related to biology and agriculture. Indexes 226 key periodicals in the life sciences and agriculture. Includes current book reviews.
Global Health including Archive
A specialist international public health database for academics, researchers, public health practitioners, NGOs, policy makers, clinicians, healthcare professionals and students. In addition to comprehensive coverage of the core public health literature, it includes significant unique content, particularly in the areas of tropical medicine, infectious diseases, vector control, food safety and epidemiology.
VetMed Resource
Covers diseases and pathogens of poultry, pigs, and small and large ruminants, including food safety and quality information to help livestock farmers and associated professionals deliver healthy animals and safe, nutritious animal products to the food industry.
Hospitality & Tourism Complete
Covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism, including food safety in foodservice establishments.
Business Source Complete
Largely full-text index to peer-reviewed and trade business publications, useful for coverage of the food industry.
PAIS International
Worldwide coverage of issues related to public and social issues and the making and evaluating of public policy. Includes citations and abstracts (beginning in 1985) to articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories. Coverage is from 1915 to present.

Analytical Methods

Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC International
Searchable online access to chemical and microbiological analytical methods validated by AOAC International. AOAC-validated methods are used by government, industry, and academia throughout the world for analysis of a variety of commodities—particularly those related to food, agriculture, public health and safety, and the environment.
Springer Nature Experiments
Springer Nature Experiments incorporates Springer Protocols, Nature Methods, and Nature Protocols into one searchable database of laboratory protocols in the biomedical and life sciences. Springer Protocols contains all of the protocols from the book series Methods in Molecular Biology. Both Nature Protocols and Nature Methods are journals containing more recently published techniques.
Wiley Current Protocols Online
Current Protocols has been the leading source of laboratory protocols for over 25
years and now comprises more than 15,000 techniques and procedures across
17 titles.
STATSnetBASE
Online collection of handbooks for statisticians and researchers employing statistical science across a wide range of disciplines. To search STATSnetBASE titles, choose “Advanced Search” upon connecting to CRCnetBASE and limit your search to the “Statistics” Subject collection.

Dissertations

Dissertations from most colleges and universities in North America can be located using Proquest Dissertations and Theses Global.

Finding Disssertations and Theses
Guide from the MSU Libraries to help you obtain the full text of a doctoral dissertation or master's thesis.

Dissertations and Theses Databases

The MSU Libraries do not normally purchase copies of dissertations from other institutions but many institutions are willing to loan copies of their dissertations. Copies of dissertations from other institutions can usually be obtained through InterLibrary Loan. Information about this service is available at the Get It @MSU section of the Main Library's home page.

MSU Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains over 35,000 ETDs written at MSU dating from 1899 to the present. These are freely available without an MSU login.

Dissertations & Theses @ BTAA Institutions
Formerly called Current Research @ CIC Institutions, this ProQuest site provides access to dissertations and theses from MSU and other Big Ten Academic Alliance (formerly CIC) institutions (Big Ten plus University of Chicago); from 1997 onward, full text is available. Citations and abstracts are available for earlier documents.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global
Comprehensive collection of fulltext dissertations and theses since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for earlier periods. Includes MSU dissertations and theses.
China Doctoral Dissertations Full-text Database
Subscription includes these series:

Literature/History/Philosophy, Politics/Military/Law, Education/Social Sciences

Websites

Codex Alimentarius
Food standards, guidelines, codes of practice, etc. to protect the health of consumers, ensure fair trade practices in the food trade, and promote coordination of all food standards work undertaken by international governmental and non-governmental organizations.
FDA Food Code
A reference document for regulatory agencies that ensure food safety in food service establishments, retail food stores, other food establishments at the retail level, and institutions such as nursing homes and child care centers.
Food Recall Reporter
Searchable food recall database from the Food Industry Counsel that allows users to conduct a food recall search for FDA and USDA food product recalls.
FoodRisk.org
Online resource for food safety risk analysis, providing data, tutorials, tools, and links to numerous sources of information. Produced by the Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (JIFSAN), a collaboration between the University of Maryland and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
FoodSafety.gov
Gateway to U.S. Government food safety information.
Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)
Public health agency in the U.S. Department of Agriculture responsible for ensuring that the nation's commercial supply of meat, poultry, and egg products is safe, wholesome, and correctly labeled and packaged.
Food Safety Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Useful for statistics and general reports on food safety issues.
Food Safety Research Information Office (FSRIO)
Collects, organizes and disseminates food safety research information for educators, industry, researchers and the general public.
GovInfo
A service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to a wealth of important information products produced by the federal government, including the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) and Federal Registrer. The information provided on this site is the official, published version and can be used without restriction, unless specifically noted.
UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health
The legislation database tracks federal policies from 2010-2019 and all state policies related to obesity and diet-related diseases in issue areas including access to healthy food, breastfeeding, farms and gardens, school nutrition and physical activity, food assistance programs, marketing/advertising to children, menu and package labeling, and food and beverage taxes.
World Health Organization Library Catalog
Search for WHO publications. Full-text links to documents are frequently provided.

Additional Guides

Subject-specific research guides from the MSU Libraries.