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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- „... described a plot to smuggle the poison ricin intothe food supply on at least one British military base in ...” „... worried about cyanide spreadingthrough the food supply and the number of deaths it could cause.Caroline ...” „... Shefeared that if a terrorist were to strike the U.S. food supply, consumer confi-dence in the government’s ...”
- „... pending.Food manufacturers have been able to slip a thousand additives into theU.S. food supply without any FDA ...” „... full extent to which engineered nanomaterials have entered theU.S. food supply as part of GRAS ...” „... supply.Some of the products that would be affected include refrigerated biscuits,cinnamon rolls and frostings ...”
- „... . 98, 2013.Agiwal, Swati, and Hamid Mohtadi. “Risk Mitigating Strategies in the Food Supply ...” „... , August22, 2013.“Fixing Food Safety: Protecting America’s Food Supply from Farm-To-Fork; Focus On ...” „... Bibliography“A Decade of Dangerous Food Imports from China.” Food & Water Watch, June 8, 2011.Acton ...”
- „... addresses a variety of issues, from threats to thenation’s food supply to the healthfulness of food served ...” „... AppendixHelp with Your Food Safety Questions and ComplaintsThese government and nonprofit food ...” „... safety agencies and organizations haveanswers to most of your questions about food safety issues.Center ...”
- „... overseeingthe safety of the nation’s food supply. This approach was not rationallydesigned,” the group stated.6 ...” „... decided in 2008 tostreamline our antiquated set of food safety laws.1 The efforts immediatelyslowed to a ...” „... crawl. Finally, the law known as the FDA Food Safety andModernization Act was signed and passed by the ...”
- „... think it would be unduly disruptive of the14 Chapter 2food supply to try to withdraw that product from ...” „... , Wa-terborne, and Environmental Diseases, put it this way: “As our food supplybecomes more global, people are ...” „... Chapter TwoFood ImportsOur increasing appetites for imported foods and spices grow every year ...”
- „... supply,particularly seafood, meat, poultry, and eggs, HACCP plans should containprovisions for restaurants to monitor ...” „... Chapter EighteenRestaurant FoodAh, I finally got around to the subject close to your heart and ...” „... the drive-through lane at a fast-foodrestaurant. You have decided to put your food safety in the hands ...”
- „... industries leads tohorrible cruelty to farm animals and a polluted food supply. You will cry and, if you ...” „... 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 ...”
- „... expert on protect-ing our food supply. In 1996, a disgruntled Texas lab worker infected foodprepared for ...” „... Chapter ElevenFood Tampering and Food FraudFOOD TAMPERINGIt’s not just the terrorist we need to ...” „... defend against to prevent or lessen theeffects of an attack on our food supplies. Incidents of food ...”
- „... stealth use in the U.S. food supply for more than a decade, despitebeing banned almost everywhere else ...” „... Chapter TwelveFoods We Eat, Others Won’tIf our food is as safe as it can be made, as our government ...” „... claims, why doother countries around the world consider many of the foods we eat sodangerous that they ...”
- „... Food SupplyChain,” University of Minnesota, Department of Applied Economics, Selected Paper preparedfor ...” „... , December 29, 2010.6. Caroline Smith DeWaal, “Rising Imports, Bioterrorism, and the Food Supply,” Foodand ...” „... NotesINTRODUCTION1. “Nearly Three-Quarters of Americans Looking to Government for More Food ...”
- „... production.So many of our federal food safety laws and rules are written to favor theindustry far above the ...” „... surveillance that’s required. Some food production facilitiesreceive a visit from an inspector once every 10 ...” „... public pressures. Forfour years the FDA ignored pleas from the public and from food safetywatchdog groups ...”
- „... . Ourwatchdog government agency, charged by law with the duty and responsibil-ity to make sure our food is safe ...” „... consumption of theproducts increase food safety dangers as they relate to seafood. The averageAmerican now ...” „... and around coral reefs.The toxins concentrate as they pass up the food chain to large carnivorousfish ...”
- „... food supply. In a review of 158humane handling violations issued to the 30 plants, the USDA found 10 ...” „... 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 ...”