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English
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Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley set out to ensure food safety. He selected food tasters to test various food additives and preservatives, letting them know that the substances could be harmful or deadly. The tasters were recognized for their courage, and became known as the poison squad.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Is your kitchen out to get you? This video shows the kitchen as a workplace filled with potential danger from scalding water and sizzling oil to whirring blades and natural gas. It shows how to handle knives, prevent shocks, childproof a kitchen, avoid burns, and prevent e-coli contamination.
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"What we eat, where it is from, and how it is produced are vital questions in today's America. We think seriously about food because it is freighted with the hopes, fears, and anxieties of modern life. Yet critiques of food and food systems all too often sprawl into jeremiads against modernity itself, while supporters of the status quo refuse to acknowledge the problems with today's methods of food production and distribution. Food Fights sheds new...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
This two-part guide to our food system's problems and how consumers can help protect themselves is written by two seasoned journalists who helped break the story of the 2011 listeria outbreak that killed 33 people.
Nearly 50 million Americans will get food poisoning this year. Spoiled, doctored or infected food will send more than 100,000 people to the hospital. Three thousand will die. The authors explain how the food system works-- and more importantly...
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