Food, biomedical, and environmental scientists, most from Europe and North America, introduce food and environmental virology then cover the detection, surveillance, and risk assessment of viruses in food and water; virus transmission routes and control of food and water contamination; and particular pathogens and future directions. Among the specific topics are the prevalence of viruses in food and the environment, tracing the sources of outbreaks of foodborne and waterborne viral disease and investigating the outbreak using molecular methods, inactivating food-borne virus by thermal and non-thermal processes, advances in understanding the hepatitis A virus as a food-borne and waterborne pathogen and progress with vaccine development, and the impact of climate change and weather variability on viral pathogens in food and water. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)