Read Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety Online

Authors: Marion Nestle

Tags: #Cooking & Food, #food, #Nonfiction, #Politics

Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety (75 page)

Public Voice (consumer group),
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Pure Food and Drugs Act,
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Pure Food Campaign,
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Pusztai, Arpad,
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Radiation

microbial resistance to,
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See also
Irradiation of food

mutations induced by,
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Rainforest Action Network,
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Ralston Foods,
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Rats, experiments on,
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Raw food,
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Recalls of food products,
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Recontamination,
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Refrigeration,
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of food additives,
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of foodborne microbes,
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by HACCP,
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food industry’s alliance with,
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food industry’s influence on,
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and fragmentation of regulatory authority,
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and limitation of regulatory authority,
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pharmaceutical industry’s influence on,
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pharmaceutical industry’s resistance to,
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politics of,
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and precautionary principle,
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public distrust of,
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and recall authority,
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and reorganization of food safety authority,
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and science-based approach,
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and uniform standards,
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and value-based approach,
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Reilly, Donald,
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Religion,
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Rendering,
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Reorganization of government food safety authority,
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Republican party,
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Resistance, microbial,
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See also
Antibiotics, resistance to

Resistance to safety measures.
See under
Food industry

Responsibility

borne by retail food preparers,
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food industry’s acceptance of,
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food industry’s denial of,
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Restaurants

and change in dietary preferences,
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and foodborne microbes,
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and genetically modified products,
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See also
Fast-food outlets

Rhône-Poulenc,
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Rice

genetically modified,
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global demand for,
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patented lines of,
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Rifkin, Jeremy,
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Right of equivalency in imported foods,
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Riley, Janet,
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Risk assessment

and acceptability of risk,
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and bioterrorism,
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and diet,
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differing standards for,
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dread and outrage as factors in,
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and foodborne microbes,
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and growth hormones,
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and HACCP,
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and mad cow disease,
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and National Food Safety Initiative,
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politics of,
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and precautionary principle,
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and raw food,
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science-based approach to,
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See also
Biotechnology, agricultural, risk assessment of

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Rockman, Alexis,
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Rose, Carl,
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Royal Society of London,
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Royal VanderHave,
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Russia,
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Sabritas,
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Saccharin,
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Safe Food Coalition,
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Safety, assessment of.
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Risk assessment; Testing

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Safety procedures,
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Preventive measures; Testing

Safeway stores,
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