Title: Food safety
First published: 2007
Description: Is our food safe? Much of the corn, soybeans, and canola oil we eat  has been genetically modified, but we donit know the long-term effects of GM foods on our health and the environment. We also consume antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria through the meat we eat, and we face new threats like mad cow disease, avian flu, and bioterrorism.Food Safety: A Reference Handbook, Second Edition provides a broad, readable, and level-headed overview of these and other food safety controversies. Through a combination of statistics and substantive information, it delineates the nature and scope of the issues. It also introduces readers to the researchers, activists, industries, and government agencies that play a role in the battle for food safetyoan issue that impacts us all.
Subjects: Current Events, Food adulteration and inspection, Food industry and trade, Handbooks, manuals, Handbooks, manuals, etc, Nonfiction, Safety measures, Science
LC classification: TX531 .R44 2007