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Eat, Drink, and Be Wary
How Unsafe Is Our Food?
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2015
Summary
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.
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Copyright year
2015
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-3839-8
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-3840-4
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
201
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Foreword No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 2
1 Bioterrorism, Cyber Attacks No access Pages 3 - 8
2 Food Imports No access Pages 9 - 16
3 Produce No access Pages 17 - 22
4 Poultry No access Pages 23 - 32
5 Eggs No access Pages 33 - 38
6 Beef and Pork No access Pages 39 - 50
7 Milk No access Pages 51 - 56
8 Seafood No access Pages 57 - 64
9 Deli Dangers No access Pages 65 - 70
10 Outbreaks, Illnesses, and Deaths No access Pages 71 - 82
11 Food Tampering and Food Fraud No access Pages 83 - 90
12 Foods We Eat, Others Won’t No access Pages 91 - 98
13 Unwelcome Critters in Our Foods No access Pages 99 - 104
14 GMOs—Genetically Modified Organisms No access Pages 105 - 112
15 Generally Recognized as Safe No access Pages 113 - 118
16 BPA—Bisphenol A No access Pages 119 - 124
17 The Cottage Food Industry and Your Kitchen No access Pages 125 - 130
18 Restaurant Food No access Pages 131 - 136
19 Government’s Report Card No access Pages 137 - 140
