Food Toxicology 2(2+0)

Lesson 11 : Toxicants Found in Foods

Terminology for Antimicrobial Agents

• Disinfectants: Clinical term/ Environment surfaces/ Water Chlorination
• Sanitizers: Food industry/ Environment surfaces
• Antiseptics: on skin or mucous membrane not suitable for internal use
• Chemotherapeutic agents (Antibiotics): For internal use in plants, humans and animals
• Preservatives: added to food or produced by fermentation.
• Suffix: -cidal or cide = kill
• -static or stat= inhibit without killing
• Germicide: Kill microorganisms
• Sporicide: Kill spores
• Fungicide: Kill fungi
• Viricide: Kill virus
• Fungistat: inhibit fungi
• Bactericide: Kill bacteria
• Bacteristat: inhibit bacteria