Title In food we trust : the politics of purity in American food regulation / Courtney I. P. Thomas.

Publication Info.	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2014]
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Description	1 online resource.
Series	At table
	At table series.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction : A Twentieth-Century Problem -- Escape from the Jungle -- The Cranberry Crisis -- Science and Politics Collide -- Models of Food Safety Regulation -- Pandora's Jack in the Box -- From Spinach to GAPs -- The Peanut Butter Crisis -- The Future of Food Safety -- Epilogue : A Twenty-first-Century Mandate.
Summary	"One of the great myths of contemporary American culture is that the United States' food supply is the safest in the world because the government works to guarantee food safety and enforce certain standards on food producers, processors, and distributors. In reality U.S. food safety administration and oversight have remained essentially the same for more than a century, with the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 continuing to frame national policy despite dramatic changes in production, processing, and distribution throughout the twentieth century. In Food We Trust is the first comprehensive examination of the history of food safety policy in the United States, analyzing critical moments in food safety history from Upton Sinclair's publication of The Jungle to Congress's passage of the 2010 Food Safety Modernization Act. With five case studies of significant food safety crises ranging from the 1959 chemical contamination of cranberries to the 2009 outbreak of salmonella in peanut butter, In Food We Trust contextualizes a changing food regulatory regime and explains how federal agencies are fundamentally limited in their power to safeguard the food supply. "-- Provided by publisher.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Food adulteration and inspection -- Law and legislation -- United States.
	Food adulteration and inspection -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
	Food adulteration and inspection -- United States -- History.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National.
	MEDICAL / Health Policy.
	Food adulteration and inspection. (OCoLC)fst00930671
	Food adulteration and inspection -- Law and legislation. (OCoLC)fst00930679
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Infrastructure.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Thomas, Courtney Irene Powell, author. In food we trust 9780803254817 (DLC) 2014012254 (OCoLC)877370470
ISBN	9780803276420 (electronic bk.)
	0803276427 (electronic bk.)

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