Threats to Food Safety

Description

Food is an intrinsic part of every society, but recently it has become a source of worry for citizens and government officials. Food poisoning, alimentary contamination from imported food products, and bioterrorism are all potential threats to the population of nations, but to what extent? Many new techniques to ensure food safety have emerged recently to deal with several food-safety problems. However, some of these short-term solutions could end up becoming long-term problems. Do health-food advocates exaggerate these dangers? Should we worry about food safety? Have the governments failed to product consumers from the risks of food-based diseases? Examining the topic of food safety from multiple perspectives, Threats to Food Safety provides a wealth of essential information on this important issue designed to allow the reader to address these complex questions.
Each volume of the Viva Library in a Book series is carefully designed to be a first-stop research source on important current issues. Written clearly and carefully so that even the most complex aspects of the topic are easily understandable, the books give the reader the essential information to begin work, plus the research tools needed to delve more deeply into the issue. Each book includes a history of the subject, biographical information on important figures in the field, a complete annotated bibliography, and a carefully designed index-everything the researcher needs to get down to work.

About the Author:

Fred C. Pampel holds a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is currently a professor at the University of Colorado and has also taught at the University of North Carolina, the University of Iowa, and Florida State University. Pampel specializes in research on fertility, mortality, smoking, and social inequality, and he has received 15 grants to date for in-depth studies of these topics. He is the author of five books, including Tobacco Industry and Smoking and Racial Profiling; coauthor of three books; and author or coauthor of more than 45 articles. He is a member of the American Sociological Association, the Population Association of America, and the Southern Sociology Society.