Ensuring Safe Food: From Production to Consumption

by Staff, Institute of Medicine

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Title Statements

Full title :Ensuring Safe Food : From Production to Consumption.

Summary

How safe is our food supply? Each year one in every ten Americans has an illness caused by the food they consume. These food-borne illnesses are caused by pathogenic microorganisms, pesticide residues, food additives, and toxic chemicals naturally present in food and in the environment. Recent actions taken at the federal, state, and local levels in response to the increase in reported incidences of food-borne illnesses point to the need to evaluate the food safety system in the United States. This book assesses the effectiveness of the current food safety system and provides recommendations on changes needed to ensure an effective science-based food safety system. Food Safety discusses such important issues as: What are the primary hazards associated with the food supply? What gaps exist in the current system for ensuring a safe food supply? What effects do trends in food consumption have on food safety? What is the impact of food preparation and handling practices in the home, in food services, or in production operations on the risk of food-borne illnesses? What organizational changes in responsibility or oversight could be made to increase the effectiveness of the food safety system? The committee discusses the current trends in risks associated with microbiological, chemical, and physical hazards. The book also considers how changes in technology and food processing might introduce new risks. It is vitally important to determine the most effective structure of responsibility to ensure consumer safety. To that end, the committee makes recommendations on steps for developing a coordinated, unified system for food safety as well as recommendations on the additional research needed. Food Safety will be important for policy-makers, food trade professionals, food producers, food processors, food researchers, public health professionals, and consumers.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1998.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):National Academies Press
Place of Publication:Washington
Language:eng
Publication Date:1998.

Notes

""A Science-Based Foundation Using Risk Analysis""

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (206 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780309593403, 0309593409, 0309065593, 9780309065597
oclc:ocn923261876
LC Classification:TX531.C587 1998eb
Dewey Decimal:363.1927

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 SystemRecommendation 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 SystemsVoluntary Efforts -- Trade Associations -- Consumer Groups -- Professional Organizations -- Academ…

Subjects

Aliments -- Contamination -- États-Unis Consumer Product Safety Delivery of Health Care Electronic books Environment and Public Health Environmental Pollution Food adulteration and inspection -- Gov… Food adulteration and inspection -- Gov… Food contamination Food contamination -- United States Food poisoning -- Prevention Food poisoning -- Prevention. -- United… Food safety Medical care pollution Prestation de soins public health Santé publique United States