Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety (73 page)

Mergers, corporate,
3
,
7
,
14
,
260

Merrill, Richard A.,
335
n29

Methionine,
174

Mexico,
2
,
6
,
8
,
44
,
48
,
114
,
127
,
221
,
232
,
234
–36,
290

Microbes, foodborne

as adulterants,
82
,
83
,
102
–3,
104
,
106

antibiotic-resistant,
19
,
41
,
43
,
45
–47,
118
,
127
–28,
199

and consumer groups,
34
,
76
,
83
,
108
,
110
,
124

and consumer surveys,
167

and corporate resistance to regulation,
16
,
24
,
27
–28,
29
,
63
,
70
,
71
,
72
,
76
–77,
82
–84,
86
,
92
,
94
,
97
,
103
–7,
110
–12,
120

deaths caused by,
27
,
36
,
37
,
38
,
40
,
42
,
73
,
77
,
83
,
90
,
97
,
126
,
127
,
129
,
130
,
282
,
283
,
284
,
286
,
288

and demographic factors,
39
,
43
,
49

and dietary preferences,
43
,
48
–49

dread and outrage in response to,
29
,
33
,
127

economic costs of,
29
,
284
,
290
,
293

and fragmentation of regulatory authority,
55
–61,
57
,
62
,
70

government regulation of,
24
,
27
–28,
29
,
50
,
62
,
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,
65
–67,
70
,
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,
73
–76,
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,
80
–84,
282
–85,
288
–90,
295
–97

by HACCP,
63
,
67
–71,
68
,
69
,
75
,
75
,
76
,
81
,
84
–85,
86
–92,
94
–99,
104
–10,
112

hospitalizations caused by,
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,
36
,
37
,
38
,
42
,
130
,
285
,
286
,
294

and international trade,
48
,
114
–16,
138

irradiation of,
21
,
74
,
112
,
113
,
121
–26,
136
,
283

and journalism,
34

and legal proceedings,
27
–28,
29
,
39
,
66
–67,
76
,
77
,
98
,
101
,
104
–10,
113
,
129
–30,
285
,
288
,
290

and political factors,
24
,
29
,
83
,
92
,
94
,
95
,
96
,
107
,
281
,
291
,
295

prevalence of,
37
,
39

and raw food,
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,
29
–30,
35
,
90
,
127
–28,
129
,
281
–83,
286
,
293
–94

and risk assessment,
19
,
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,
24
,
27
,
34
–35,
37

and safe handling labels,
66
–67,
76
–77,
82
,
83
,
90

spread by food processing practices,
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,
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,
50
,
117
–20

spread by food production practices,
28
,
43
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43
–45,
50

surveillance of,
37
–39,
133

testing for,
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–84,
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,
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,
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,
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,
97
,
102
–4,
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,
121
,
128
,
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,
135

value-based approach to,
21
,
281

virulence of,
40
–42

See also
Illnesses caused by foodborne microbes; Preventive measures

Milk,
28
,
30
,
33
,
37
,
42
,
127
–28,
147
,
172
,
197
,
256
,
257
,
284

and bovine growth hormone (BGH),
197
–207,
211
,
280

raw,
21
,
127
–28,
281
–82

Miller, George,
289

Miller, Margaret,
205

Minimum wage,
31
,
120

Mission Foods,
4
,
8

Molds,
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Monarch butterflies,
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,
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–92,
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,
221

Monoculture,
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Monsanto,
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,
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,
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–53,
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,
227
–28,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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n13,
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n35

and bovine growth hormone (BGH),
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–207,
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,
280

and terminator genes,
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,
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Moonen, Rick,
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Morgan, J. P.,
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Mothers for Natural Law,
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Mucklow, Rosemary,
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,
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,
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,
104
–5

Mutations,
153
,
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Mycogen,
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Nader, Ralph,
92

NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement),
234
–35

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration),
67

National Academy of Sciences, U.S.,
18

National American Wholesale Grocers Association,
77

National Cattlemen’s Beef Association,
65
,
254

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine,
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,
347
n56

National Farmers Organization,
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National Food Processors Association (NFPA),
133
,
223
,
269
,
270

National Institutes of Health (NIH),
199
,
206

National Library of Medicine,
347
n56

National Marine Fisheries Service,
56

National Meat Association,
92
,
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,
103
,
104
,
106

National Organic Standards Board,
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National Research Council (NRC),
18
,
46
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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National Restaurant Association,
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Natural Selection Foods,
284

Nature
(scientific journal),
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,
235
,
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Nervous system,
36
,
251

Neomycin.
See
Kanamycin

Nestlé corporation,
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,
286
,
293
–94

Netherlands,
8
,
113
,
256

New England Journal of Medicine
,
46

News media.
See
Journalism

Newsweek
,
34

New variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease,
252
–53,
255

New York Daily News
,
135

New Yorker,
154
,
168
,
210

New York Times
,
13
,
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,
75
,
76
,
83
,
92
,
94
,
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,
106
,
107
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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n2

New Zealand,
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Non-GMO Project,
280

Novartis,
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,
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,
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,
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Nowlin, James,
77
,
83

Nucleic acids,
176

See also
DNA

Nugent, Robert J.,
73
–74

Nutrition,
29
–30,
48
,
63
–64,
78
,
159
,
162
–65,
220

Nutrition Week
,
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Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
(Price),
281

NW Rage (Northwest Resistance against Genetic Engineering),
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Obama, Barack,
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,
292

Objectivity, scientific,
19
,
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Odwalla,
97
–99,
126
,
130

Office of Homeland Security,
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,
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,
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Office of Management and Budget (OMB),
96

Office of Public Health Preparedness,
265

Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP),
12
,
192
,
195

Office of Technology Assessment (OTA),
168
,
201

Omnivore’s Dilemma
(Pollan),
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The Onion
,
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,
292

Opines,
301

Organic farming,
2
,
3
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Organic Food Production Act,
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Organic foods,
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,
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,
232
–34,
245
,
280

Osterholm, Michael,
121

Outbreaks of foodborne illness,
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,
37
–40,
41
–42,
45
,
56
,
73
–74,
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,
77
,
86
,
97
–102,
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,
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,
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,
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,
266
–67,
281
–85,
286
,
287
–95

Outrage.
See
Dread and outrage

Oversight, government

complexity of,
195
,
196

fragmentation of,
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,
14
,
25
,
30
,
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,
52
,
54
,
55
–61,
56
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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limitation of,
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,
52
–53

reorganization of,
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,
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–37,
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,
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and responsibility,
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,
28
–29,
30
,
50
,
52
–54,
61
,
66
,
73
–74,
75

weakness of,
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,
142

See also
Inspection; Regulation

Ownership, corporate,
3
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6
,
7
–8
,
9
,
11
,
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,
214
,
227
,
260

Oysters, raw,
20
,
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,
282
–83

Pakistan,
271

Pandora’s Picnic Basket
(McHughen),
242

Papaya, genetically modified,
152
,
182
,
278

Papua New Guinea,
320
n4

Partnership for Food Safety Education,
118
–20,
119

Pasteurization,
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,
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,
40
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
97
–98,
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,
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–29,
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,
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,
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as euphemism for irradiation,
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,
125

Patents,
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,
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,
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,
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–29,
247