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- Kapitel Ausklappen | EinklappenSeiten
- 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
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- „... measure cooking temperatures of food during inspections.State and local governments should make restaurant ...” „... reportson food inspections with issues that are current and even more needed todaythan when they were first ...” „... safetystandards into their laws governing inspection and should update their lawswhenever the Food Code is updated ...”
- „... preventing harm in the firstplace.” That was 2009.7Our government wants to turn inspections over to the food ...” „... life-threatening: we eat food products from othercountries that have virtually no U.S. inspection. The FDA and the ...” „... USDAhave been strictly mandated to provide a high level of food inspections andenforcement, but the ...”
- „... Inspectionshttp://wwwn.cdc.gov/InspectionQueryTool/InspectionSearch.aspx. Planninga cruise? The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides aquick way to read ...” „... . The FDA is responsible for thesafety of our food through regulations, inspections, and enforcements ...” „... AppendixHelp with Your Food Safety Questions and ComplaintsThese government and nonprofit food ...”
- „... consumers.In the cottage food industry, most state laws do not require inspections ofhomes for basic food ...” „... inspections ofcottage food operators’ kitchens. There should be “inspections of the homekitchen and ...” „... inspections,much less surprise inspections to check for hot water, soap, towels and prop-er hand washing. There are ...”
- „... Meats Report,” U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and InspectionService, May 2010.2. Benjamin J ...” „... . Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and InspectionService, June 23, 2009.5. Martin Wiedman, “Using Risk ...” „... , 2010.25. Anna Ghosh, “Food & Water Watch Exposes USDA Inspection Staffing Shortages,”Food & Water Watch ...”
- „... inspections of China’s many food production facil-ities over a 12-month period in 2009–2010.10 The problem ...” „... country’s own safety inspections in 2011. China continues experi-encing critical food outbreaks and ...” „... inspections, enforcements,and seizures allow potentially deadly pathogens in contaminated foods toreach our ...”
- „... night. In thereport, Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) inspector Stan Painter toldABC News that ...” „... for inspection might be, but I’m quite sure that leaving food safetyoversight to the discretion of the ...” „... production.So many of our federal food safety laws and rules are written to favor theindustry far above the ...”
- „... Times, archives section, September 29, 1997.Ghosh, Anna. “Food & Water Watch Exposes USDA Inspection ...” „... .U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service. “FSIS Comparative RiskAssessment ...” „... Works,” December 2005/January2006.———. “Food Establishment Inspection Form,” December 2003.U.S ...”
- „... years. The truth is, most toxicfood in today’s world are invented and produced by the US food industryin ...” „... quickly fattening food ani-mals. Bottom line? Antibiotic-resistant bacteria ends up in our food.A 2013 ...” „... sold nearly 30 million pounds of anti-biotics to be fed to domestic food-producing animals.The FDA ...”
- „... Mar Foods, 74 Canadian Food Inspection Agency, 86biological agents, 5, 7 Canary Islands, 59biological ...” „... Costco, 24, 48, 157n8Chicken Inspection Isn’t A Speed Sport, 27 Cottage food industry, 125 ...” „... PsychologicalAgent Orange corn, 103, 105, 155n30, Association168n1, 169n4 Appetite for Profit: How the Food ...”
- „... inspections of imported foods by the FDA.A California importer recalled more than 58,000 pounds of tuna scrape ...” „... . Ourwatchdog government agency, charged by law with the duty and responsibil-ity to make sure our food is safe ...” „... . Inspectors accomplish little of what’s required.Tainted imports, lack of inspections, and increased ...”
- „... Inspection Act and the Pure Food andDrugs Act were passed by Congress on June 30, 1906. They were signed ...” „... awakening to the fact that our government isasleep at the wheel in safeguarding our foods. In this book ...” „... , Charles M. Duncan hasreminded us about the horrifying truth of the deteriorating quality of foods we ...”
- „... ” to some of our foods, who are we tosay “yes” to government inspection agencies like the FDA and USDA ...” „... subject, not even ranking as one of the top tenwell-known food safety programs. But the Microbiological ...” „... keeping most of the food pathogensin fruits and vegetables from reaching our dinner tables, is now in our ...”
- „... with the FDA. But simi-lar to the required inspections of imported food and other products ...” „... and their eggs. Federal food investigators discovered a strain ofSalmonella enteritidis bacteria ...” „... , known as SE.Today, eggs top the list as the leading source of food poisoning in theUnited States. The ...”
- „... Inspection Agency has studied food fraud and tam-pering cases and suggests several reasons for such crime, at ...” „... 866-300-4374 or 301-796-8240; in Canada, call the Canadian Food InspectionAgency at 800-442-2342.Food Tampering ...” „... Chapter ElevenFood Tampering and Food FraudFOOD TAMPERINGIt’s not just the terrorist we need to ...”
- „... IntroductionEat, Drink, and Be Wary describes our enormous food safety problems, thevast scope of ...” „... potentially deadly problems, and ourlax efforts in an all-out attack on our deteriorating state of food ...” „... U.S. Food andDrug Administration (FDA) in April 2014 was, “This is a significant publichealth burden ...”
- „... writing about food safety issues in 1970, producing andresearching articles on lax food inspections in ...” „... onpotentially deadly pathogens from health violations in restaurants, food pro-duction plants, commissaries ...” „... , schools, hotels, nursing homes, and hospitalsresulted in major improvements in food safety.Duncan’s 18 ...”
- „... problem: The U.S. Food Safety and Inspection Service of theUSDA conducted a comparative risk assessment ...” „... eating food that has a higher likelihood of contain-ing Listeria—nearly five times higher than ...” „... disease isrelatively rare.”2Deli meat ranks as containing the third-highest combination of food ...”
- „... Chapter OneBioterrorism, Cyber Attacks“It is highly unlikely that acts of food terrorism can be ...” „... “Food is the most vulnerable to intentional contami-nation by debilitating or lethal agents. The ...” „... diversity of sources of foods,including the global market, makes prevention difficult.”The media reported ...”
- „... us all a better understanding of the dangers in5152 Chapter 7consuming unpasteurized milk or foods ...” „... Health officials say thedairy obtained the necessary permit and passed inspections prior to the out-break ...” „... (unpasteurized) milk. It’s important enough torepeat: The rate of food-poisoning outbreaks caused by ...”
- „... from eating con-taminated food. Salmonella, the leading cause of illnesses from knownpathogens ...” „... , represents only one of the more than 200 diseases transmittedthrough food.1 Some foods simply carry more ...” „... 25, 2013. Chrissy emphasized the need for full implementation of theproposed Food Safety ...”