Acrylamide in Food

Acrylamide in Food, Second Edition, is fully updated with four new chapters that incorporate current literature on acrylamide, including analysis, formation mechanisms, levels in foods, reduction strategies, and new regulations, such as the one made by the European Union in 2017 regarding the presence of acrylamide in processed foods.

The book comprises of four parts: part one introduces acrylamide and the food chain in the context of harm and health. Part two focusses on acrylamide in various types of foods, such as bakery products, fried potato products, coffee, battered products, water, table olives, etc. Part three highlights its interaction mechanisms and health effects. Part four discusses methods of analysis.

Acrylamide in Food, Second Edition is edited by a team of international experts in the field and is a quality reference in the developing field of acrylamide in food. It is valuable to researchers in the food industry or working on evaluating the factors affecting the formation of acrylamide in different heat-treated foods and the possibilities of reducing acrylamide formation accordingly.

• Thoroughly updated revision, providing detailed information on acrylamide formation in various foods
• Includes updated content on new regulation regarding the presence of acrylamide in processed foods
• Includes interaction of acrylamide with other compounds and its fate during digestion
• Explores acrylamide in the food chain in the context of harm, such as acrylamide and cancer, neuropathology of acrylamide, and maternal acrylamide

Since Aug 2011, Professor Gökmen has been serving as founding president of the National Food Technology Platform of Turkey. He is a leading expert on food science and has contributed greatly to the understanding of process-derived effects on quality and safety of foods. He has also contributed to the development of advanced analytical methodologies for the determination of processing contaminants in foods. He has lectured nationally and internationally. Professor Gökmen has published over 200 articles, which includes 145 peer-reviewed manuscripts based on original research and 8 book chapters. He is currently associate editor in Elsevier journal Food Research International.

Professor Gökmen graduated in 1990 with food engineering degree, and gained his PhD degree in 1998. In 2004, he was awarded as outstanding young scientist by the Turkish Academy of Sciences, and in 2007 he received the science incentive award by Scientific and Technological Council of Turkey. In his career Professor Gökmen has carried out national and international research projects related to different aspects of food science. He has collaborated with research groups in Italy, Spain, Germany, France, Netherland, USA, UK, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia, Belgium, and Denmark. Professor Gökmen has founded Food Research Center at Hacettepe University in 2010, and he served as founding director until Feb 2013.

Dr. Ataç Mogol is an experienced researcher with a strong background in food science. She has over 15 years of experience in processing contaminants, including their formation, mitigation, and presence in foods.
She has her Ph.D. degree in food engineering from Hacettepe University in 2014, and she published 36 peer-reviewed articles, 4 book chapters, and 1 patent that reflect her research interest in processing contaminants, including acrylamide. Dr. Ataç Mogol has been involved in many national and international research projects and she is currently on the editorial board of the Food Chemistry journal.