Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Linda Vikstr om Bergander and Ingemar Pongratz -- Persistent organic pollutant levels in commercial baby foods and estimation of infants dietary exposure / Karl-Werner Schramm and Marchela Pandelova -- Chemicals targeting the reproductive axis / K. Svechnikov and O. S oder -- Marked for life : how environmental factors affect the epigenome / Pauliina Damdimopoulou [and others] -- Phytoestrogens : naturally occurring, hormonally active compounds in our diet / Krista A. Power, Oliver Zierau and Shannon O'Dwyer -- Role of metabolism in the bioactivation/detoxification of food contaminants / Jean-Pierre Cravedi and Daniel Zalko -- Aryl hydrocarbon receptor targeted by xenobiotic compounds and dietary phytochemicals / Jason Matthews -- Small model organisms as tools in food safety research / Marie Tohme [and others] -- Application of reporter animals as novel tools in food safety research / Balaji Ramachandran and Adriana Maggi -- In silico approaches to screening dietary endocrine disruptors / Rodolfo Gonella Diaza, Alessandra Roncaglioni and Emilio Benfenati -- Application of percellome toxicogenomics to food safety / J. Kanno [and others] -- Occurrence of endocrine disrupters in food chains / Alberto Mantovani and Ilaria Proietti.