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Safe Food Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism
Marion Nestle
14 CPEU or CE hours
Course: $98
Includes book & CE exam
CE exam only: $78
"Download on demand" available
Marion Nestle
14 CPEU or CE hours
Course: $98
Includes book & CE exam
CE exam only: $78
"Download on demand" available
Description
Food safety is a matter of intense public concern, and for good reason. Millions of annual cases of food "poisonings" raise alarm not only about the food served in restaurants and fast-food outlets but also about foods bought in supermarkets.
The introduction of genetically modified foods--immediately dubbed "Frankenfoods"--only adds to the general sense of unease. Finally, the events of September 11, 2001, heightened fears by exposing the vulnerability of food and water supplies to attacks by bioterrorists. How concerned should we be about such problems? Who is responsible for preventing them? Who benefits from ignoring them? Who decides?
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. Although the debates may appear to be about science, Nestle maintains that they really are about control: Who decides when a food is safe?
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. Accessible, informed, and even-handed, Safe Food is for anyone who cares how food is produced and wants to know more about the real issues underlying today's headlines.
Level: Intermediate
ISBN: 0520242238
ISBN-13: 9780520242234
Format: Paperback, 366pp
Publisher: University of California Press
Pub date: 2004
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: 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. Attempting Control of Food Pathogens, 1994-2002
4. Achieving safe Food: Alternatives
PART TWO. SAFETY AS AA SURROGATE: THE IRONIC POLITICS OF FOOD BIOTECHNOLOGY
5. Peddling Dreams: Promises versus Reality
6. Risk and Benefits: Who Decides?
7. The Politics of Government Oversight
8. The Politics of Consumer Concern: Distrust, Dread, and Outrage
Conclusion: The Future of Food Safety: Public Health versus Bioterrorism
Appendix: The Science of Plant Biotechnology
Notes
List of Tables
List of Figures
Index
Book author
Marion Nestle is Professor and Chair of the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at New York University. Author of Nutrition in Clinical Practice (1985), she has served s a nutrition policy advisor to the Department of Health and Human Services and as a member of nutrition and science advisory committees to the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration. She frequently writes and lectures about a broad range of topic related to food and nutrition policy.
Dietetic professionals
CPE Level: 2
Suggested Commission on Dietetic Registration Learning Need Codes: It is the sole responsibility of the dietetic professional to determine the learning need code met by a course. numedix.com provides the following "suggested" codes, but the professional can deviate from them if they feel another need is met.
1000 Professional skills
1080 Legislation, public policy
4000 Wellness and public health
4080 Government-funded Food & Nutrition Programs
5370 Weight management, obesity
8010 Child and adult food programs
8110 School foodservice
Food safety is a matter of intense public concern, and for good reason. Millions of annual cases of food "poisonings" raise alarm not only about the food served in restaurants and fast-food outlets but also about foods bought in supermarkets.
The introduction of genetically modified foods--immediately dubbed "Frankenfoods"--only adds to the general sense of unease. Finally, the events of September 11, 2001, heightened fears by exposing the vulnerability of food and water supplies to attacks by bioterrorists. How concerned should we be about such problems? Who is responsible for preventing them? Who benefits from ignoring them? Who decides?
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. Although the debates may appear to be about science, Nestle maintains that they really are about control: Who decides when a food is safe?
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. Accessible, informed, and even-handed, Safe Food is for anyone who cares how food is produced and wants to know more about the real issues underlying today's headlines.
Level: Intermediate
ISBN: 0520242238
ISBN-13: 9780520242234
Format: Paperback, 366pp
Publisher: University of California Press
Pub date: 2004
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: 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. Attempting Control of Food Pathogens, 1994-2002
4. Achieving safe Food: Alternatives
PART TWO. SAFETY AS AA SURROGATE: THE IRONIC POLITICS OF FOOD BIOTECHNOLOGY
5. Peddling Dreams: Promises versus Reality
6. Risk and Benefits: Who Decides?
7. The Politics of Government Oversight
8. The Politics of Consumer Concern: Distrust, Dread, and Outrage
Conclusion: The Future of Food Safety: Public Health versus Bioterrorism
Appendix: The Science of Plant Biotechnology
Notes
List of Tables
List of Figures
Index
Book author
Marion Nestle is Professor and Chair of the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at New York University. Author of Nutrition in Clinical Practice (1985), she has served s a nutrition policy advisor to the Department of Health and Human Services and as a member of nutrition and science advisory committees to the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration. She frequently writes and lectures about a broad range of topic related to food and nutrition policy.
Dietetic professionals
CPE Level: 2
Suggested Commission on Dietetic Registration Learning Need Codes: It is the sole responsibility of the dietetic professional to determine the learning need code met by a course. numedix.com provides the following "suggested" codes, but the professional can deviate from them if they feel another need is met.
1000 Professional skills
1080 Legislation, public policy
4000 Wellness and public health
4080 Government-funded Food & Nutrition Programs
5370 Weight management, obesity
8010 Child and adult food programs
8110 School foodservice
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