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and intellectual property rights, 227
and irradiation, 123, 124, 125
and Meat Inspection Act, 50, 52–54, 66, 312n42
and organic foods, 232
and Plant Pest Act, 195–96
and Pure Food and Drugs Act, 52–54
and relations with FDA, 59–60, 114, 115, 124, 125, 132, 201, 204, 205, 265, 268, 269, 270, 273, 274, 296, 297
and relations with USDA, 52–53, 59, 63–66, 71–72, 91, 94, 95, 101, 107, 123, 265, 297
and reorganization of food safety oversight, 131–32, 268, 274, 296–97
and uniform standards, 53, 296–97
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 230
Consumer Federation of America, 118
Consumer groups
and animal antibiotics, 47
and biotechnology, 2, 4–5, 11–14, 16, 25, 145, 209, 225, 244, 280
and food additives, 34
and foodborne microbes, 34, 76, 83, 108, 110, 124
and industry-friendly legislation, 92
and international trade, 115
and irradiation, 124
legal proceedings initiated by, 16, 76, 108
and meat processing, 71, 76, 83
and political relations, 1–2, 11, 12, 16, 275
and precautionary principle, 24
Consumer Reports, 37, 124, 293
Consumers
education of, 66, 76, 77, 90, 91, 112, 113, 117–20, 119, 129
responsibility shifted to, 30, 50, 66, 75, 75–76, 77, 82–83, 86, 90, 91, 103, 104, 112, 113, 120, 124, 272
surveys of, 167–70, 206, 222–23
Consumers Union, 13, 18, 280
Convenience foods, 43, 44
Conway, Gordon, 163–64, 230
Cookie dough, raw, 286, 293–94, 352n49
Cooking, 1, 10, 28, 35–36, 40, 41, 42, 49, 66, 69, 73, 75, 76, 82, 83, 86, 87, 90, 100, 103, 104, 106, 114, 117, 119, 119–20, 178, 257, 287
Coordinated Framework for regulation of biotechnology, 195–96, 216
Corn, genetically modified, 2–17, 19–20, 116, 139, 151, 180, 182, 183, 189, 191, 210, 218, 220, 227, 234–36, 237, 245, 278, 279, 306n4
Corporations. See Food industry; names of specific corporations
Cost-benefit analysis, 17, 19, 126
Cotton, genetically modified, 136, 139, 178, 180–81, 182, 183, 191, 210, 214, 227, 278
Council for Biotechnology Information, 153, 154, 161, 182, 241
Council on Food Safety. See President’s Council on Food Safety
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), 251, 252–53, 255, 343n4
Cross, H. Russell, 81
Cross-contamination, 40, 48, 75, 98, 106, 117, 119
Crown galls, 301–2
Cry9C, 3, 9–11, 12
See also Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt)
Cuba, 239
Cultural factors, 20, 97, 110–12, 127, 165
Customs Service, U.S., 56
Cyclospora, 116
Dannon, 280
Deaths caused by foodborne microbes, viii, 27, 36, 37, 38, 40, 42, 73, 77, 83, 90, 97, 126, 127, 129, 130, 282, 283, 284, 286, 288
Delta and Pine Land, 230, 232
Democracy, 128, 141–42, 170, 219, 221, 244, 275
Demographic factors, 43, 49
Denmark, 113, 138, 238
Deregulation, 199, 251
Developing countries, 146, 151–53, 159–60, 163, 220, 228, 230, 247
Devine, Thomas, 72
DHHS. See Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of
Diarrhea, 28, 36, 37, 38, 41, 99, 116, 165, 271
Diet
for cancer survivors, 29–30
changing preferences in, 42, 43, 43, 48–49
and supplements, 60, 134, 159, 165, 328n31
and USDA recommendations, 63–64
and vitamin A deficiency, 159, 162–65, 327n26
Digestive system, 9–10, 28, 29, 34, 35, 36, 41, 178, 198, 199–200, 257, 343n5
Distrust, 14, 22, 74, 125, 272
of biotechnology, 139, 140, 141, 170–71, 179, 188, 221, 224, 225, 226, 227, 232, 235, 240, 241, 242, 246, 250, 274, 299
DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), 10, 121, 139, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 176–78, 194, 195, 207, 246, 299-302, 302–3
Dole, Robert, 92, 93
Douglas, Mary, 20, 268
Dow Chemical, 227
Dread and outrage
and biotechnology, 25, 140, 166, 169, 171, 179, 194, 220–21, 232, 235, 236, 241, 246–48
and bioterrorism, 272
and foodborne microbes, 29, 33, 127
and globalization, 236
and irradiation, 122
and precautionary principle, 23–24
and value-based approach, 17, 21, 22
Drugs, 196–97
See also Antibiotics; Growth hormones; Pharmaceutical industry
Druker, Steven, 244
Drying, bacterial resistance to, 40, 41
DuPont, 227
Durbin, Richard, 132, 136
Dysentery, 36
E. coli. See Escherichia coli
Earthbound Farms, 284,