In Food We Trust

The Politics of Purity in American Food Regulation

Courtney I. P. Thomas (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2014
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-0-8032-5481-7 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Twentieth-Century ProblemPart 1: The U.S. Food Safety Regulatory Regime1. Escape from the Jungle2. The Cranberry Crisis3. Science and Politics CollidePart 2: Crises, Scandals, and Food Safety Regulation4. Models of Food Safety Regulation5. Pandora's Jack in the Box6. From Spinach to GAPsPart 3: A New Regime for the Twenty-first Century7. The Peanut Butter Crisis8. The Future of Food SafetyEpilogue: A Twenty-first-Century MandateAppendix A. Recall List from 2008-9 Peanut OutbreakAppendix B. Food Safety Proposals before the 111th Congress
NotesBibliography
Index

Reihe/Serie	At Table
Zusatzinfo	1 table, 1 figure, 2 appendixes, index
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Technik ► Lebensmitteltechnologie
ISBN-10	0-8032-5481-4 / 0803254814
ISBN-13	978-0-8032-5481-7 / 9780803254817
Zustand	Neuware