• Choose a category
• All
• Classic-Fiction

25. DHHS. Healthy People 2010, Vol 1, January 2000. Online: www.health.gov/healthypeople/.

26. Douglas M, Wildavsky A. Risk and Culture: An Essay on the Selection of Technical and Environmental Dangers. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. Quotation: 73,80–81.

27. Fischler C. Raison et déraison dans la perception des risques alimentaires. Cahiers de Nutrition et de Diététique 1998;33:297–300. Fischler writes: “Si l’on est ce que l’on mange et que l’on ne sait plus ce que l’on mange, sait-on encore ce que l’on est?” Also see, of course: Lévi-Strauss C. The Raw and the Cooked, Vols. 1–3. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968–1969.

28. Slovic P. The Perception of Risk. London: Earthscan, 2000. Lowrance WW. Of Acceptable Risk: Science and the Determination of Safety. Los Altos, CA: William Kaufmann, 1976. Scherer CW. Strategies for communicating risks to the public. Food Technology 1991;45(10):110–116. Bennett P, Calman K, eds. Risk Communication and Public Health. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999:3–19.

29. Burros M. Congress moving to revamp rules on food safety: reducing federal role. NYT, July 3, 1995:1,28. Thonney PF, Bisogni CA. Government regulation of food safety: interaction of scientific and societal forces: a scientific status summary. Food Technology 1992:46 (1):73–80.

30. Sandman PM. Risk communication: facing public outrage. EPA J 1987;13(9):21–22. Frewer L. Risk perception, social trust, and public participation in strategic decision making: implications for emerging technologies. Ambio (Sweden) 1999;28:569–574.

31. Commission of the European Communities. Communication from the Commission on the Precautionary Principle. Brussels, February 2, 2000, at http://portal.unesco.org/shs/en/ev.php-URL_ID=6615&URL_DO=DO_PRINT PAGE&URL_SECTION=201.html.

32. Foster KR, Vecchia P, Repacholi MH. Science and the precautionary principle. Science 2000;288:979–981. Groth E. Science, Precaution and Food Safety: How Can We Do Better? (discussion paper for the US Codex Delegation), February 2000, at www.consumersunion.org/food/codexcpi200.htm.

33. Montague P. The precautionary principle. Rachel’s Environment & Health Weekly, 586, February 19, 1998, at www.seismo.unr.edu/htdocs/academic/

ANDERSON/Papers/Precaution/Montague_PrecautionaryPrinciple.pdf.

34. The EU-U.S. Biotechnology Consultative Forum: Final Report. Brussels, December 2000, at http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/00/1484&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en.

35. Whelan EM. Our “stolen future” and the precautionary principle. Priorities for Health 1996;8(3), at www.acsh.org/healthissues/newsID.712/health issue_detail.asp. Also see: Paarlberg RL. The Politics of Precaution: Genetically Modified Foods in Developing Countries. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

PART 1. RESISTING FOOD SAFETY

1. Mead PS, Slutsker L, Dietz V, et al. Food-related illness and death in the United States. Emerging Infectious Diseases 1999;5:607–625. CDC. Preliminary FoodNet data on the incidence of foodborne illnesses—selected sites, United States, 2000. MMWR 2001;50 (April 6):241–246.

2. Fox N. Spoiled: the Dangerous Truth About a Food Chain Gone Haywire. New York: Basic Books, 1997:66–67.

3. Brown J, Byers T, Thompson K, et al. Nutrition during and after cancer treatment: a guide for informed choices by cancer survivors. CA: Cancer J for Clinicians 2001;51(3):153–187.

CHAPTER 1. THE POLITICS OF FOODBORNE ILLNESS: ISSUES AND ORIGINS

1. Smith RJ. Institute of Medicine report recommends complete overhaul of food safety laws. Science 1979;203:1221–1224. Although warning labels are no longer required, the role of saccharin in human cancer is still under debate. A 1998 review by the World Cancer Research Fund (Food, Nutrition, and the Prevention of Cancer: A Global Perspective. Washington, DC: American Institute for Cancer Research, 1998:356–358) concluded that saccharin “probably has no relationship with the risk of bladder cancer in the amounts obtainable