Eat, Drink, and Be Wary
How Unsafe Is Our Food?
Abstract
Food safety has fast become one of the nation’s top issues. Three thousand people die each year in the U.S. from foodborne illnesses. Another 48 million are sickened annually and our government fails to protect us. Many foods and additives that we eat every day have been banned for years in other countries. Our government food safety agencies move in reverse--cutting back on inspections, allowing food producers to inspect themselves, and permitting the vast majority of potentially adulterated foods to enter this country without benefit of any testing or inspection.
How, in a country so advanced in most areas, could we have descended to this alarming state of food safety? One answer: Budget cuts and bureaucrats. Eat, Drink, and Be Wary examines the multitude of dangers in food production, transportation, storing, and preparation that result in this shocking number of preventable illnesses and deaths. It takes a broad and detailed look, in all food groups, at the problems and potential solutions in food safety practices, inspections, and enforcements.
This book answers the questions and concerns of millions of Americans who have reached new levels of serious doubts about the safety of our food. Charles Duncan points readers to the dangers to look for in deli foods, raw milk, seafood, poultry, eggs, beef, and others. For consumers who care about the food they eat, this book details the dangers, offers direction for choosing safe foods, and provides a critique of our current system that suggests ways it can be fixed, or at least improved.
Schlagworte
FDA restaurants rotten food safe eating processed food chicken industry genetically modified food fish industry government food regulations government involvement in food government oversight of food fooborne illness food contamination food illness food illnesses food inspections food markets food outbreaks food poisoning food regulation food safety food supply food supply chain food systems food toxins listeria listeria outbreaks health food healthy food e. coli eating healthfully eating healthy beef industry dangerous food- i–xiv Preface i–xiv
- 1–2 Introduction 1–2
- 9–16 2 Food Imports 9–16
- 17–22 3 Produce 17–22
- 23–32 4 Poultry 23–32
- 33–38 5 Eggs 33–38
- 39–50 6 Beef and Pork 39–50
- 51–56 7 Milk 51–56
- 57–64 8 Seafood 57–64
- 65–70 9 Deli Dangers 65–70
- 119–124 16 BPA—Bisphenol A 119–124
- 131–136 18 Restaurant Food 131–136
- 141–146 Epilogue 141–146
- 147–152 Appendix 147–152
- 153–174 Notes 153–174
- 175–186 Bibliography 175–186
- 187–200 Index 187–200
- 201–201 About the Author 201–201