food toxicology

Food toxicology is a science that studies the nature, origin and formation of foreign chemicals in food, their adverse effects and possible excellent effects and mechanisms, determines the safety limit of these substances and evaluates food safety.

The function of food toxicology is to study the harm of exogenous chemicals that may be contained in food to consumers' health from the perspective of toxicology, and to detect and evaluate the safety or safety range of food (including food additives) to ensure human health.