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Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Here is the fascinating true story of how food was made safer to eat thanks to the stubborn dedication of government chemist Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, whose hard work and determination led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Formaldehyde, borax, salicylic acid. Today, these chemicals are used in embalming fluids, cleaning supplies, and acne medications. But in 1900, they were routinely added to food that Americans ate from...
4) Tampered
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"Trevor has started his first job at Ashton's Fresh Marketplace, where someone is tampering with the food to terrify customers. Trevor and his friends Nick and Robyn decide to find the person who's out to destroy the store's reputation. Is it Mattie, the disgruntled ex-employee? Or is it Alex, their schoolmate who doesn't know when a joke has gone too far? As the pranks get more dangerous, the list of suspects grows. Trevor, Robyn and Nick are determined...
5) Food safety
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
Safety of America's food supply, foodborne illnesses, safety and problems with pesticides, food irradiation,and food-disparagement laws.
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Description
Although Polyface farm has been glowingly featured in countless national print and video media, it would not exist if the USDA and the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services had their way. From a lifetime of noncompliance, frustration, humor, and passion come the behind-the-scenes real stories that have brought this little family farm into the forefront of the non-industrial food system. Asked recently where he thought America's...
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
For millennia, fresh olive oil has been one of life's necessities, not just as food but also as medicine, a beauty aid, and a vital element of religious ritual. Today's researchers are continuing to confirm the remarkable, life giving properties of true extra-virgin, and "extra-virgin Italian" has become the highest standard of quality. But what if this symbol of purity has become deeply corrupt? Starting with an explosive article in The New Yorker,...
9) Food, Inc
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
Lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing how our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profits ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. Reveals surprising - and often shocking truths - about what we eat, how it's produced and who we have become as a nation.
10) Food, Inc
Description
Lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing how our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profits ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. Reveals surprising - and often shocking truths - about what we eat, how it's produced and who we have become as a nation.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Food safety has fast become one of the nation's top issues. Three thousand people die each year in the US from foodborne illnesses. Another 48 million are sickened annually and our government fails to protect us. Many foods and additives that we eat every day have been banned for years in other countries. Our government food safety agencies move in reverse - cutting back on inspections, allowing food producers to inspect themselves, and permitting...
12) The poison squad
Pub. Date
c2020.
Description
By the close of the Industrial Revolution, the American food supply was tainted--by frauds, fakes, and legions of new, untested chemicals--all threatening the health of consumers across the country. Based on the critically acclaimed book by Deborah Blum, it tells the story of crusading government chemist Harvey Washington Wiley, the man who led the pure food movement against the food manufacturing industry in the early years of the twentieth century,...