Food Safety

✍ Scribed by Nina E. Redman

• Publisher: ABC-CLIO
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 344
• Series: Contemporary World Issues
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Is our food safe? Much of the corn, soybeans, and canola oil we eat has been genetically modified, but we don't know the long-term effects of GM foods on our health and the environment. We also consume antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria through the meat we eat, and we face new threats like mad cow disease, avian flu, and bioterrorism.

Food Safety: A Reference Handbook, Second Edition provides a broad, readable, and level-headed overview of these and other food safety controversies. Through a combination of statistics and substantive information, it delineates the nature and scope of the issues. It also introduces readers to the researchers, activists, industries, and government agencies that play a role in the battle for food safety—an issue that impacts us all.

✦ Table of Contents

Food Safety: A Reference Handbook......Page 2
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
1 Background and History
......Page 14
2 Problems,
Controversies,
and Solutions......Page 48
3 Special U.S. Issues......Page 90
4 Chronology......Page 122
5 Biographical Sketches......Page 142
6 Data and Documents......Page 170
7 Directory of
Organizations......Page 214
8 Resources......Page 264
Glossary......Page 312
Index......Page 318
About the Author......Page 344