Courtney I. P. Thomas

In Food We Trust (eBook, ePUB)

The Politics of Purity in American Food Regulation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780803276406
• Artikelnr.: 41673241

Autorenporträt

Courtney I. P. Thomas is a visiting assistant professor of political science at Virginia Tech. She is the author of International Political Economy: Navigating the Logic Streams, an Introduction.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Twentieth-Century Problem
Part 1: The U.S. Food Safety Regulatory Regime
1. Escape from the Jungle
2. The Cranberry Crisis
3. Science and Politics Collide
Part 2: Crises, Scandals, and Food Safety Regulation
4. Models of Food Safety Regulation
5. Pandora's Jack in the Box
6. From Spinach to GAPs
Part 3: A New Regime for the Twenty-first Century
7. The Peanut Butter Crisis
8. The Future of Food Safety
Epilogue: A Twenty-first-Century Mandate
Appendix A. Recall List from 2008-9 Peanut Outbreak
Appendix B. Food Safety Proposals before the 111th Congress
Notes
Bibliography
Index