21st Century Essential Guide to Fish and Seafood - Guide to Identification, FDA Regulatory Fish Encyclopedia, Seafood and Shellfish Safety (CD-ROM)

This up-to-date and comprehensive electronic book on CD-ROM disc presents a extraordinary compilation of information and photographs from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on fish identification and seafood safety. The Regulatory Fish Encyclopedia (RFE) is a compilation of data in several formats that assists with the accurate identification of fish species. It was developed by the FDA to help federal, state, and local officials and purchasers of seafood identify species, thereby avoiding species substitution and economic deception in the marketplace. The RFE includes commercially relevant fish species for sale in the U.S. market, with high-resolution photographs as their scanned digital images (jpeg format) of whole fish and their marketed product forms (including fillets, steaks, or whole crustaceans) which may be used for visual comparison to a whole fish in question (or its marketed product form). The RFE also includes unique taxonomic characteristics (physical properties such as size, shape, color, etc.), usually in a "checklist" format, to aid in identification. In addition there is chemical taxonomic information consisting of species-characteristic biochemical patterns which may be compared quantitatively to patterns obtained by an appropriate laboratory analysis of the fish species specimen in question. These patterns include data from IEF (isoelectric focusing and RFLP (restriction fragment length polymorphism) studies. A graphical representation of the "Anatomy of an RFE IEF Gel" and a more detailed description of the RFE are available. Seafood safety information resources are also included. This CD-ROM disc is packed with over 10,000 pages reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Macintosh systems. The Acrobat cataloging technology adds enormous value and uncommon functionality to this impressive collection of government documents and material. This CD-ROM uses next-generation search technology that allows complete indexing and makes all files on the disc fully searchable.