Ensuring safe food : from production to consumption / / Committee to Ensure Safe Food from Production to Consumption, Institute of Medicine, National Research Council

• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : , : National Academy Press, , 1998
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 194 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 363.1927
• Soggetto topico: Food adulteration and inspection - Government policy - United States; Food poisoning - United States - Prevention; Food contamination - United States
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-104).
• Nota di contenuto: ""Ensuring Safe Food From Production to Consumption""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Ensuring Safe Food""; ""Executive Summary""; ""PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF THE STUDY""; ""1. The Current US Food Safety System""; ""Summary Findings: The Current US System for Food Safety""; ""2. An Effective Food Safety System""; ""Mission""; ""Attributes of an Effective Food Safety System""; ""Summary Findings: An Effective Food Safety System""; ""3. Where Current US Food Safety Activities Fall Short""; ""Summary Findings: Where the US Food Safety System Falls Short"" ; ""4. Conclusions and Recommendations Needed to Improve the US Food Safety System"" ""Recommendation I:""; ""Recommendation IIa:""; ""Recommendation IIb:""; ""Recommendation IIIa:""; ""Recommendation IIIb:""; ""MOVING TOWARD A MODEL SYSTEM""; ""1 Introduction and Background ""; ""CHANGES IN THE US FOOD SYSTEM AND THEIR EFFECTS ON FOOD SAFETY""; ""SCOPE OF THE FOOD SAFETY PROBLEM""; ""HISTORY OF US FOOD SAFETY REGULATION""; ""THE COMMITTEE AND ITS CHARGE""; ""2 The Current US Food Safety System ""; ""REGULATION""; ""Federal Regulatory Programs""; ""State and Local Regulatory Systems"" ; ""HACCP Systems"" ""Voluntary Efforts""; ""Trade Associations""; ""Consumer Groups""; ""Professional Organizations""; ""Academe""; ""Liability""; ""SURVEILLANCE""; ""Human and Animal Disease""; ""Chemical Residues and Environmental Contaminants""; ""Food and Drug Administration""; ""US Department of Agriculture""; ""Environmental Protection Agency""; ""National Marine Fisheries Service""; ""Federal-State Cooperative Agreements""; ""Industry""; ""TECHNICAL GUIDANCE AND EDUCATION""; ""Government Activities""; ""Private Efforts""; ""CONSUMER RESPONSIBILITY AND PERCEPTIONS"" ; ""THE ROLE OF MEDIA-GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIPS IN FOOD SAFETY EDUCATION"" ""RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT""; ""Federal Research Activities""; ""Application of New Technology""; ""INTERNATIONAL DIMENSIONS""; ""Food Safety Efforts of Other Countries""; ""Canada""; ""Other Countries and Cooperatives""; ""US Regulation of Imported Foods""; ""SUMMARY FINDINGS: THE CURRENT US SYSTEM FOR FOOD SAFETY""; ""3 The Changing Nature of Food Hazards: Cause for Increasing Concern ""; ""CHANGES THAT AFFECT THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF FOODBORNE DISEASE""; ""Diet""; ""Commercial Food Services"" ; ""Methods of Production and Distribution"" ""New or Re-emerging Infectious Foodborne Agents""; ""Populations at High Risk for Severe or Fatal Foodborne Disease""; ""CHANGES IN CHEMICAL HAZARDS ASSOCIATED WITH THE FOOD SUPPLY""; ""New Food Components""; ""New Food Technologies""; ""New or Re-emerging Toxic Agents""; ""Physical Hazards""; ""SUMMARY FINDINGS: THE CHANGING NATURE OF FOOD HAZARDS""; ""4 What Constitutes an Effective Food Safety System? ""; ""THE MISSION OF THE SYSTEM""; ""GENERAL ATTRIBUTES OF THE SYSTEM""; ""THE IMPORTANCE OF PARTNERING""; ""THE ROLES OF GOVERNMENT PARTNERS""; ""A Science-Based Foundation Using Risk Analysis""
• Titolo autorizzato: Ensuring safe food
• ISBN: 0-309-17397-3; 1-280-18587-2; 9786610185870; 0-309-59340-9; 0-585-02822-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811409003321
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