{"id":711,"date":"2009-02-16T17:34:03","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T21:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/?p=711"},"modified":"2012-04-23T22:05:19","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T02:05:19","slug":"in-the-news-food-safety-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/in-the-news-food-safety-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"In the News: Food Safety 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

Week of February 16, 2009<\/strong><\/h3>\n

News Item<\/strong>:\u00a0 One year ago, In the News highlighted titles on food safety <\/a>after 143 million pounds of ground beef was recalled from a California meat company. Since then Melamine was found in Chinese infant formula in 2008, and a Georgia processing plant was recently blamed for an outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium found in peanut butter and peanut paste products. How safe is our food, and what is the FDA and USDA doing to eliminate future foodborne illnesses?<\/p>\n

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The Chemical Feast: The Ralph Nader Study Group Report on Food Protection and the Food and Drug Administration<\/em>
\n<\/strong>By James S. Turner. Grossman Publishers, 1970
\nCall Number: HD9000.9 .U5 T83<\/p>\n

Ensuring Safe Food: From Production to Consumption<\/em>
\n<\/strong>By the National Research Council (U.S.) Committee to Ensure Safe Food from Production to Consumption. National Academy Press, 1998
\nCall Number: TX531 .C587 1998<\/p>\n

Fast Food Nation<\/em> (DVD)
\n<\/strong>Directed by Richard Linklater. 20th Century Fox, 2006
\nSummary: “When a marketing executive for a huge burger chain finds a nasty secret ingredient in their burger recipe, he goes to the ranches and slaughterhouses of Colorado to investigate and finds that the truth is sometimes difficult to swallow.“<\/em>
\nCall Number: PN1997.2 .F3768 2007 (Media Center)
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\nFood Alert!: The Ultimate Sourcebook for Food Safety <\/em>
\n<\/strong>By Morton Satin. Checkmark Books, 1999
\nCall Number: RA601.5 .S28 1999b<\/p>\n

Food Safety and International Competitiveness: The Case of Beef <\/em>
\n<\/strong>By John Spriggs and Grant Isaac. CABI Pub., 2001
\nCall Number: TX531 .S67 2001<\/p>\n

Food Safety in the Hospitality Industry <\/em>
\n<\/strong>By Tim Knowles. Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002
\nCall Number: TX531 .K74 2002<\/p>\n

The Future of Drug Safety: Promoting and Protecting the Health of the Public<\/em>
\n<\/strong>By the Institute of Medicine (U.S.) Committee on the Assessment of the US Drug Safety System. National Academies Press, 2007
\nCall Number: RA401 .A3 I568 2007<\/p>\n

Governing Food: Science, Safety and Trade <\/em>
\n<\/strong>Edited by Peter W. B. Phillips and Robert Wolfe. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001
\nCall Number: TX 537 .P5 2001<\/p>\n

Guide to Foodborne Pathogens
\n<\/em><\/strong>Edited by Ronald G. Labb\u00e9 and Santos Garcia. Wiley, 2001
\nCall Number: QR115 .G83 2001<\/p>\n

Investigating Food Additives<\/em> (DVD)
\n<\/strong>Directed by Wendy Boersema. Meridian Education Corp., 2003
\nSummary: “Identifies common food additives and describes their use as flavor enhancers, preservatives, thickeners, texturizers, stabilizers, buffers, coloring matter and nutritional supplements such as antioxidants. Highlights BHA, BHT, and sulfites. Discusses government regulation of additives and how the Food and Drug Administration closely monitors and evaluates consumer problems with food additives, particularly adverse reactions, to ensure that additives are indeed safe.”
\nCall Number: TX553 .A3 I58 2003 (Media Center)<\/p>\n

King Corn<\/em> (DVD)
\n<\/strong>Directed by Aaron Woolf. New Video, 2008
\nSummary: “Fueled by curiosity and a dash of naivet\u00e9, college buddies Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis return to their ancestral home of Greene, Iowa, to find out how the modest corn kernel conquered America. With the help of real farmers, powerful fertilizer, government aid, and genetically modified seeds, the friends manage to grow one acre of corn. Along the way, they unlock the hidden truths about America’s modern food system.”
\nCall Number: HD9049 .C8 U65 2008 (Media Center)<\/p>\n

Poisons on Our Plates: The Real Food Safety Problem in the United States <\/em>
\n<\/strong>By Michele Morrone. Praeger, 2008
\nCall Number: RA1258 .M66 2008<\/p>\n

Salmonella
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Rufus K. Guthrie. CRC Press, 1992
\nCall Number: QR201 .S25 G88 1992<\/p>\n

Spoiled: The Dangerous Truth About a Food Chain Gone Haywire
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Nicols Fox. BasicBooks, 1997
\nCall Number: RA601.5 .F68 1997<\/p>\n

Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World<\/em> (DVD)
\n<\/strong>Directed by Cori Brackett and J.T. Waldron. Cinema Libre Distribution, 2005
\nSummary: “Explores the controversy raised by the artificial sweetener, aspartame such as is there a connection between it and illness, or, did the government push for its approval and suppress key data and also delves into FDA processes and various reports of health risks.”
\nCall Number: RA1242 .A73 S94 2005 (Media Center)<\/p>\n

To America’s Health: A Proposal to Reform the Food and Drug Administration
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Henry I. Miller. Hoover Institution Press, 2000
\nCall Number: RA401 .A3 M55 2000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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