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When Food Kills : BSE, E.coli and disaster science

Author : T. Hugh Pennington
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780191588778
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (887 download)

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Download or read book When Food Kills : BSE, E.coli and disaster science written by T. Hugh Pennington and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2003-09-18 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'food scare' concept took on new meaning in 1996, which opened with variant CJD emerging as the human form of BSE, and closed with Britain's worst E.coli O157 outbreak in central Scotland. As people died, so did trust in government and science. This book tells the story of these events, what led up to them, and what has happened since. It breaks new ground by dissecting these tragedies alongside catastrophes like Aberfan, Piper Alpha, Chernobyl, and the worst ever railway accidents in Ireland and Britain (Armagh and Quintinshill), as well as classical outbreaks of botulism, typhoid, E.coli O157 and Salmonella food poisoning. Britain's ability to win Nobel prizes marches with a propensity to have disasters. The book explains why, demonstrating failures in policy making, failures in the application of science, and failing inspectorates. A unique feature of this book is its breadth since it covers history, politics and law as well as science. It also makes some fascinating connections, like those between 1930's nuclear physics, E.coli, and molecular biology, and the links between manslaughter in 19th century mental hospitals, syphilis, the Nobel Prize, and the prospects for successfully treating variant CJD. Royal murderers, vaccine research in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, and the race to develop the atom bomb appear as well. For the general reader its non-technical but authoritative account of the science behind these tragedies, its critical appraisal of how the government responded to them, its coverage of public inquiries and its analysis of risk will be informative and stimulating. Scientists will find its approach to the prion theory and the origins of BSE challenging and controversial. Policy makers will find not only diagnoses of what went wrong in the past, but remedies ror the future.

When Food Kills

Author : Thomas Hugh Pennington
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780198525172
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book When Food Kills written by Thomas Hugh Pennington and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2003 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since Edwina Currie's salmonella, Britain has seemed cursed by major food safety scares, with E.coli and BSE particularly prominent. Amidst tabloid frenzy and recrimination, the public is dependent upon sober scientific risk assessment and rational evaluation of what went wrong. Hugh Pennington has been at the forefront of this as a scientist, expert witness and commentator, and this book is his accessible but rigorous account of these diseases and the events surrounding them. This is a disaster book for the general reader giving authoritative but non-technical accounts of BSE/variant CJD and E.coli O157 all in the context of disasters (like Piper Alpha, Aberfan, and rail crashes), history and politics.

Food, risk and politics

Author : Ed Randall
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847796370
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book Food, risk and politics written by Ed Randall and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about the risk politics of food safety. Food-related risks regularly grab the headlines in ways that threaten reasoned debate and obstruct sensible policy making. In this book, Ed Randall explains why this is the case. He goes on to make the case for a properly informed and fully open public debate about food safety issues. He argues that this is the true antidote to the politics of scare, scandal and crisis. The book skilfully weaves together the many different threads of food safety and risk politics and offers a particularly rewarding read for academics and students in the fields of politics and media studies. It will also appeal to scholars from other disciplines, particularly social psychology and the food sciences. The book is a lively and exceptionally readable account of food safety and risk politics that will engage policy makers and the general reader. It promises to help us all manage food safety issues more intelligently and successfully.

Food Safety

Author : Nina E. Redman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1598840495
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Food Safety written by Nina E. Redman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-05-22 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a detailed survey of food safety issues today, from E-coli contamination in fruits and vegetables to food production practices that increase antibiotic resistance. Is our food safe? Much of the corn, soybeans, and canola oil we eat has been genetically modified, but we don't 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 safety—an issue that impacts us all.

Food Poisoning, Policy, and Politics

Author : David F. Smith
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843831389
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Food Poisoning, Policy, and Politics written by David F. Smith and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of the 1963/4 typhoid outbreak, highlighting issues and debates which are strikingly relevant today. The problem of food poisoning and food-borne infections is currently one of vigorous debate, highlighted since the 1980s by numerous outbreaks and scares involving salmonella in lettuce and eggs, listeria in cheese, the links between vCJD and BSE, E.Coli 0157 in cooked meats, and foot and mouth disease. Yet, as this book shows, the various issues involved were important as early as 1963/4, when there were serious typhoid outbreaks in Harlow, South Shields, Bedford, and Aberdeen, traced to contaminated corned beef imported from Argentina. Based upon extensive research, using archives which have only recently become available, private papers, and interviews as well as secondary literature, the book analyses the course of the outbreak and looks at the responses of politicians, officials, health professionals, business interests, the media and the public. It also considers the difficult issue of the weighing offood safety against international trade and other business and economic interests; conflicts between government departments; rivalry between professionals such as doctors and veterinarians; the effects upon and influence of victims and local communities; and the conduct of and responses to an official enquiry. Overall, it draws out generic lessons for how such epidemics should be handled, adding an historical perspective to contemporary debates.

Medicine, the Market and the Mass Media

Author : Virginia Berridge
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134408560
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Medicine, the Market and the Mass Media written by Virginia Berridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection opens up the post war history of public health to sustained research-based historical scrutiny. Medicine, the Market and the Mass Media examines the development of a new view of 'the health of the public' and the influences which shaped it in the post war years. Taking a broad perspective the book examines developments in Western Europe, and the relationships between Europe and the US. The essays looks at the dual legacy of social medicine through health services and health promotion, and analyse the role of mass media along with the connections between public health and industry. This international collection will appeal to public health professionals, students of the history of medicince and of heath policy

Irish Food Law

Author : Caoimhín MacMaoláin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1509907785
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Irish Food Law written by Caoimhín MacMaoláin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The production, marketing and exportation of food is particularly important to the Irish economy. The sector continues to grow and has played a very significant role in Ireland's financial recovery. This important new book provides a much needed overview of the field. It traces the history and development of the fledgling system of food law as it was in Ireland during colonial times and the Irish Free State, through to an examination of the current dynamic relationship between International, European Union and domestic laws on matters such as food safety, food labelling and advertising, protected food names, hygiene and food contamination. The book also contains detailed assessments of the ways in which the law is used to address current health concerns, such as those related to nutrition, obesity and alcohol abuse, as well as such issues as food fraud, animal welfare, organics and the use of technologies like genetic modification, cloning and nanotechnology in food production.

Microcosm

Author : Carl Zimmer
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307377563
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Microcosm written by Carl Zimmer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-05-06 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Best Book of the YearSeed Magazine • Granta Magazine • The Plain-DealerIn this fascinating and utterly engaging book, Carl Zimmer traces E. coli's pivotal role in the history of biology, from the discovery of DNA to the latest advances in biotechnology. He reveals the many surprising and alarming parallels between E. coli's life and our own. And he describes how E. coli changes in real time, revealing billions of years of history encoded within its genome. E. coli is also the most engineered species on Earth, and as scientists retool this microbe to produce life-saving drugs and clean fuel, they are discovering just how far the definition of life can be stretched.

Fat

Author : Sander L. Gilman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 074565875X
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Fat written by Sander L. Gilman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern world is faced with a terrifying new ‘disease’, that of ‘obesity’. As people get fatter, we have come to see excess weight as unhealthy, morally repugnant and socially damaging. Fat it seems has long been a national problem and each age, culture and tradition have all defined a point beyond which excess weight is unacceptable, ugly or corrupting. This fascinating new book by Sander Gilman looks at the interweaving of fact and fiction about obesity, tracing public concern from the mid-nineteenth century to the modern day. He looks critically at the source of our anxieties, covering issues such as childhood obesity, the production of food, media coverage of the subject and the emergence of obesity in modern China. Written as a cultural history, the book is particularly concerned with the cultural meanings that have been attached to obesity over time and to explore the implications of these meanings for wider society. The history of these debates is the history of fat in culture, from nineteenth-century opera to our global dieting obsession. Fat, A Cultural History of Obesity is a vivid and absorbing cultural guide to one of the most important topics in modern society.

Salmonella Infections, Networks of Knowledge, and Public Health in Britain, 1880-1975

Author : Anne Hardy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198704976
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Salmonella Infections, Networks of Knowledge, and Public Health in Britain, 1880-1975 written by Anne Hardy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first scholarly history of food poisoning, telling of the discovery of food poisoning as a public health problem in the 1880s, of the discovery of pathways of infection and of the Salmonella family, and of the realisation that these organisms are deeply embedded in human and animal food chains and the subsequent importance of food hygiene.

Risk Communication and Public Health

Author : Kenneth Calman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199562849
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Risk Communication and Public Health written by Kenneth Calman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bringing together a wide variety of perspectives on risk communication, this up-to-date review of a high profile and topical area includes practical examples and lessons."--[Source inconnue].

Diet for a Large Planet

Author : Chris Otter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 022669710X
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Diet for a Large Planet written by Chris Otter and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meat -- Wheat -- Sugar -- Risk -- Violence -- Metabolism -- Bodies -- Earth -- Acceleration.

Social Issues in America

Author : James Ciment
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317459717
Total Pages : 2056 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Social Issues in America written by James Ciment and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 2056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 150 key social issues confronting the United States today are covered in this eight-volume set: from abortion and adoption to capital punishment and corporate crime; from obesity and organized crime to sweatshops and xenophobia.

Dirt

Author : Ben Campkin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857712144
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Dirt written by Ben Campkin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dirt - and our rituals to eradicate it - is as much a part of our everyday lives as eating, breathing and sleeping. Yet this very fact means that we seldom stop to question what we mean by dirt. What do our attitudes to dirt and cleanliness tell us about ourselves and the societies we live in? Exploring a wide variety of settings - domestic, urban, suburban and rural - the contributors expose how our ideas about dirt are intimately bound up with issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality and the body. The result is a a rich and challenging work that extends our understanding of historical and contemporary cultural manifestations of dirt and cleanliness.

Human Rights in the Market Place

Author : Christopher Harding
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317119746
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights in the Market Place written by Christopher Harding and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ideology of human rights protection has gained considerable momentum during the second half of the twentieth century at both national and international level and appears to be an effective lever for bringing about legal change. This book analyzes this strategy in economic and commercial policy and considers the transportation of the 'public law' discourse of basic human rights protection into the 'commercial law' context of economic policy, business activity and corporate behaviour. The volume will prove indispensable for anyone interested in human rights, international law, and business and commercial law.

Liquid Materialities

Author : Peter Atkins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317104803
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Liquid Materialities written by Peter Atkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a food, milk has been revered and ignored, respected and feared. In the face of its 'material resistance', attempts were made to purify it of dirt and disease, and to standardize its fat content. This is a history of the struggle to bring milk under control, to manipulate its naturally variable composition and, as a result, to redraw the boundaries between nature and society. Peter Atkins follows two centuries of dynamic and intriguing food history, shedding light on the resistance of natural products to the ordering of science. After this look at the stuff in foodstuffs, it is impossible to see the modern diet in the same way again.

Food Law

Author : Caoimhín MacMaoláin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782256105
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book Food Law written by Caoimhín MacMaoláin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a broad conspectus on the application of EU and international regulation of the food sector on English law. It is aimed at practitioners and students of this vital and emerging branch of law, which has become an important part of current political and legal debate. It is written not just for lawyers as a statement of current law, but is also aimed at all those involved or interested in the food industry who wish to familiarise themselves with how the law is applied practically in this jurisdiction. The book commences with a short conceptual framework for the study of food law. It then provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of current English law, explaining fully the detailed processes by which both international and national law and EU decision making have impacted upon most aspects of the production, sale and consumption of food in England. The book explains and assesses the operation of the current law by describing in detail the roles of Government, the Food Standards Agency and local enforcement authorities in the making and enforcing of laws concerning food. The work contains full outlines of the developments in the most significant areas of food law. It concentrates specifically on topics such as food labelling and advertising, quality and compositional requirements, geographical food names, genetic modification, organic production, animal welfare and also the role of law in tackling poor health, obesity, and diet-related disease. The book, though primarily designed as a law text, goes beyond the usual confines of such works. It sets out to explain and describe the impact of successive food crises, such as BSE and the use of horsemeat in beef products, on food safety and transparency requirements. The book considers and assesses how the existing rules on the chemical and biological safety of food impact on our law, and concludes with a review of the developing legal issues concerning the environmental impacts of current and proposed food law, in particular the relationship between food law, climate change and food security.