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In Food We Trust
One of the great myths of contemporary American culture is that the United States' food supply is the safest in the world because the government works to guarantee food safety and enforce certain standards on food producers, processors, and distributors. In reality U.S. food safety administration and oversight have remained essentially the same for more than a century, with the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 continuing to frame national policy despite dramatic changes in production, processing, and distribution throughout the twentieth century.
In Food We Trustis the first comprehensive examination of the history of food safety policy in the United States, analyzing critical moments in food safety history from Upton Sinclair's publication ofThe Jungleto Congress's passage of the 2010 Food Safety Modernization Act. With five case studies of significant food safety crises ranging from the 1959 chemical contamination of cranberries to the 2009 outbreak of salmonella in peanut butter,In Food We Trustcontextualizes a changing food regulatory regime and explains how federal agencies are fundamentally limited in their power to safeguard the food supply.
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Identification and Detection of Adulterations of Salmon Caviar by PCR, IR Spectrometry, and Digital Coloriometry
A possibility of identifying and establishing adulterations of salmon caviar by a simple and an available method using PCR, Fourier transform IR spectrometry, digital colorimetry with the chemometric processing of the analysis results is shown. The PCR method is used to determine the species of salmon caviar. No salmon DNA in the studied caviar samples, as well as the presence of DNA of other fish, indicates the adulteration of the caviar products. Near- and mid-region Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy makes it possible to distinguish between the natural and imitation caviar after processing diffuse reflectance spectra by principal component analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis. The above methods are combined with a simpler and a cheaper colorimetric analysis method. Hand-made devices with LEDs emitting in the UV and IR regions are used. The analytical signal is recorded using smartphones with specialized applications. Chemometric processing of the spectral characteristics of the samples makes it possible to distinguish natural caviar from imitation and structured caviar: in the principal component analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis, points of the analyzed samples are located in different quadrants and clusters.
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Food Safety in China
This book provides a comprehensive review of the efforts put forth by China to prevent food safety concerns. Looking at food producers and operators, consumers, and government agencies as part of an organic system, the book examines the complete system of the food supply chain from multi-scientific systematic points of view. It begins with the production of agricultural products and investigates the changing track of food safety (including imported and exported products) in the key aspects of production, circulation, and consumption from 2006 to 2011.
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In food we trust : the politics of purity in American food regulation
\"One of the great myths of contemporary American culture is that the United States' food supply is the safest in the world because the government works to guarantee food safety and enforce certain standards on food producers, processors, and distributors. In reality U.S. food safety administration and oversight have remained essentially the same for more than a century, with the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 continuing to frame national policy despite dramatic changes in production, processing, and distribution throughout the twentieth century. In Food We Trust is the first comprehensive examination of the history of food safety policy in the United States, analyzing critical moments in food safety history from Upton Sinclair's publication of The Jungle to Congress's passage of the 2010 Food Safety Modernization Act. With five case studies of significant food safety crises ranging from the 1959 chemical contamination of cranberries to the 2009 outbreak of salmonella in peanut butter, In Food We Trust contextualizes a changing food regulatory regime and explains how federal agencies are fundamentally limited in their power to safeguard the food supply. \"-- Provided by publisher.
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Eco Crime and Genetically Modified Food
The GM debate has been ongoing for over a decade, yet it has been contained in the scientific world and presented in technical terms. Eco Crime and Genetically Modified Food brings the debates about GM food into the social and criminological arena.
This book highlights the criminal and harmful actions of state and corporate officials. It concludes that corporate and political corruption, uncertain science, bitter public opposition, growing farmer concern and bankruptcy, irreversible damage to biodervisty, corporate monopolies and exploitation, disregard for social and cultural practices, devastation of small scale and local agricultural economies, imminent threats to organics, weak regulation, and widespread political and biotech mistrust – do not provide the bases for advancing and progressing GM foods into the next decade. Yet, with the backing of the WTO, the US and UK Governments march on – but at what cost to future generations?
Reece Walters is Professor in Criminology, and Head of the Social Policy and Criminology Department at The Open University. He has published widely on the politics and governance of criminological knowledge, including Deviant Knowledge - Criminology, Politics and Policy and Critical Thinking about the Uses of Research (with Tim Hope).
1. Introduction: Planting the Seed 2. The Politicisation of GM: Terrain, Terms and Concepts 3. The Perils, Prospects and Controversies of GM Food 4. Risk, Public Opinion and Consumer Resistance 5. Biotech, Papal and Trade ‘Wars’: Third World Hunger, Exploitation and the Politics of GM Food 6. Regulatory Regimes: Ensuring Safety or Enhancing Profits? 7. Green Criminology: Power, Harm and (In) Justice 8. Reflections and Conclusions
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A Closer Look at Food Safety
When certain disease-causing bacteria, viruses, or parasites contaminate food, they can cause foodborne illness. The food supply in the United States is among the safest in the world - but it can still be a source of infection. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), foodborne pathogens cause up to 48 million illnesses, 128,000 hospitalizations, and 3,000 deaths in the United States each year.
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