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The Resource Safe food : bacteria, biotechnology, and bioterrorism, Marion Nestle

Safe food : bacteria, biotechnology, and bioterrorism, Marion Nestle

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"Marion Nestle, author of the critically acclaimed Food Politics, argues that ensuring safe food involves more than washing hands or cooking food to higher temperatures. It involves politics. When it comes to food safety, billions of dollars are at stake, and industry, government, and consumers collide over issues of values, economics, and political power - and not always in the public interest." "She demonstrates how powerful food industries oppose safety regulations, deny accountability, and blame consumers when something goes wrong, and how century-old laws for ensuring food safety no longer protect our food supply. She draws on three examples: microbial contamination of meat and poultry, genetically modified ingredients in supermarket products, and newly emerging hazards - bioterrorism among them. If as she says, food safety is a matter of politics, then problems of food safety require political solutions. Ensuring safe food requires government and industry to act more in the public interest, and consumers to exert democratic rights as citizens to make sure that they do." "Accessible, informed, and even-handed, Safe Food is for anyone for cares how food is produced and wants to know more about the real issues underlying today's headlines. It should be of interest to everyone who eats and wants food to be safe - from general readers to students, farmers, scientists, and anyone connected with the food industry or government."--Jacket
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (xvi, 350 pages
Note
  • Includes index
  • Notes: p. 283-326
Contents
  • Attempting control of food pathogens, 1994-2002
  • 4.
  • Achieving safe food : alternatives
  • Part two.
  • Safety as a surrogate : the ironic politics of food biotechnology. 5.
  • Peddling dreams : promises versus reality
  • 6.
  • Risks and benefits : who decides?
  • 7.
  • The politics of government oversight
  • Introduction :
  • 8.
  • The politics of consumer concern : distrust, dread, and outrage
  • Conclusion : the
  • future of food safety : public health versus bioterrorism
  • food safety is political
  • Part one.
  • Resisting food safety. 1.
  • The politics of foodborne illness : issues and origins
  • 2.
  • Resisting meat and poultry regulation, 1974-1994
  • 3.
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Safe food : bacteria, biotechnology, and bioterrorism
Title
Safe food
Title remainder
bacteria, biotechnology, and bioterrorism
Statement of responsibility
Marion Nestle
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"Marion Nestle, author of the critically acclaimed Food Politics, argues that ensuring safe food involves more than washing hands or cooking food to higher temperatures. It involves politics. When it comes to food safety, billions of dollars are at stake, and industry, government, and consumers collide over issues of values, economics, and political power - and not always in the public interest." "She demonstrates how powerful food industries oppose safety regulations, deny accountability, and blame consumers when something goes wrong, and how century-old laws for ensuring food safety no longer protect our food supply. She draws on three examples: microbial contamination of meat and poultry, genetically modified ingredients in supermarket products, and newly emerging hazards - bioterrorism among them. If as she says, food safety is a matter of politics, then problems of food safety require political solutions. Ensuring safe food requires government and industry to act more in the public interest, and consumers to exert democratic rights as citizens to make sure that they do." "Accessible, informed, and even-handed, Safe Food is for anyone for cares how food is produced and wants to know more about the real issues underlying today's headlines. It should be of interest to everyone who eats and wants food to be safe - from general readers to students, farmers, scientists, and anyone connected with the food industry or government."--Jacket
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Nestle, Marion
Dewey number
363.19/26
Government publication
government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
RA601
LC item number
.N465 2003
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
NLM call number
  • 2003 F-988
  • WA 695
NLM item number
N468s 2003
Series statement
California studies in food and culture
Series volume
5
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Food
  • Food
  • Bioterrorism
  • Food Contamination
  • Bioterrorism
  • Food Microbiology
  • Food, Genetically Modified
  • Legislation, Food
  • Safety
  • Aliments
  • Aliments
  • Bioterrorisme
  • Sécurité alimentaire
  • Biotechnologie
  • Politique alimentaire
  • Industrie alimentaire
  • Contamination des aliments
  • Armes biologiques
  • Bioterrorism
  • Food
  • Food
  • Voedselveiligheid
  • Biotechnologie
  • Voedselvergiftiging
  • Overheidsbeleid
  • Lebensmittelüberwachung
  • Terrorismus
  • Lebensmittelqualität
  • Lebensmittel
  • Sicherheit
  • Lebensmittelmikrobiologie
  • Politique alimentaire
  • Aliments
  • Bioterrorisme
  • Gesundheitsschutz
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Safe food : bacteria, biotechnology, and bioterrorism, Marion Nestle
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Publication
Note
  • Includes index
  • Notes: p. 283-326
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-326) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Attempting control of food pathogens, 1994-2002
  • 4.
  • Achieving safe food : alternatives
  • Part two.
  • Safety as a surrogate : the ironic politics of food biotechnology. 5.
  • Peddling dreams : promises versus reality
  • 6.
  • Risks and benefits : who decides?
  • 7.
  • The politics of government oversight
  • Introduction :
  • 8.
  • The politics of consumer concern : distrust, dread, and outrage
  • Conclusion : the
  • future of food safety : public health versus bioterrorism
  • food safety is political
  • Part one.
  • Resisting food safety. 1.
  • The politics of foodborne illness : issues and origins
  • 2.
  • Resisting meat and poultry regulation, 1974-1994
  • 3.
Extent
1 online resource (xvi, 350 pages
Form of item
online
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
Other physical details
illustrations)
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1040015057
Label
Safe food : bacteria, biotechnology, and bioterrorism, Marion Nestle
Link
Publication
Note
  • Includes index
  • Notes: p. 283-326
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-326) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Attempting control of food pathogens, 1994-2002
  • 4.
  • Achieving safe food : alternatives
  • Part two.
  • Safety as a surrogate : the ironic politics of food biotechnology. 5.
  • Peddling dreams : promises versus reality
  • 6.
  • Risks and benefits : who decides?
  • 7.
  • The politics of government oversight
  • Introduction :
  • 8.
  • The politics of consumer concern : distrust, dread, and outrage
  • Conclusion : the
  • future of food safety : public health versus bioterrorism
  • food safety is political
  • Part one.
  • Resisting food safety. 1.
  • The politics of foodborne illness : issues and origins
  • 2.
  • Resisting meat and poultry regulation, 1974-1994
  • 3.
Extent
1 online resource (xvi, 350 pages
Form of item
online
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
Other physical details
illustrations)
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1040015057

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