Author: Marguerite C. BurkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Food consumption
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Measures and Procedures for Analysis of U.S. Food Consumption
Author: Marguerite C. BurkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Food consumption
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Ensuring Safe Food
Author: Institute of Medicine and National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309173973
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
How safe is our food supply? Each year the media report what appears to be growing concern related to illness caused by the food consumed by Americans. These food borne illnesses are caused by pathogenic microorganisms, pesticide residues, and food additives. Recent actions taken at the federal, state, and local levels in response to the increase in reported incidences of food borne illnesses point to the need to evaluate the food safety system in the United States. This book assesses the effectiveness of the current food safety system and provides recommendations on changes needed to ensure an effective science-based food safety system. Ensuring Safe Food discusses such important issues as: What are the primary hazards associated with the food supply? What gaps exist in the current system for ensuring a safe food supply? What effects do trends in food consumption have on food safety? What is the impact of food preparation and handling practices in the home, in food services, or in production operations on the risk of food borne illnesses? What organizational changes in responsibility or oversight could be made to increase the effectiveness of the food safety system in the United States? Current concerns associated with microbiological, chemical, and physical hazards in the food supply are discussed. The book also considers how changes in technology and food processing might introduce new risks. Recommendations are made on steps for developing a coordinated, unified system for food safety. The book also highlights areas that need additional study. Ensuring Safe Food will be important for policymakers, food trade professionals, food producers, food processors, food researchers, public health professionals, and consumers.
National Survey Data on Food Consumption: Uses and Recommendations
Author: Coordinating Committee on Evaluation of Food Consumption SurveysPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
Trends and Patterns in U.S. Food Consumption
Author: Marguerite C. BurkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Food consumption
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
U.S. Food Consumption
Author: Agriculture Handbook
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Set includes revised editions of some issues.
U.S. Food Consumption
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. Food Consumption and Utilization SectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Food consumption
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Economics of Agriculture
Author: Arthur Webster TruePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A Framework for Assessing Effects of the Food System
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 030930783X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
How we produce and consume food has a bigger impact on Americans' well-being than any other human activity. The food industry is the largest sector of our economy; food touches everything from our health to the environment, climate change, economic inequality, and the federal budget. From the earliest developments of agriculture, a major goal has been to attain sufficient foods that provide the energy and the nutrients needed for a healthy, active life. Over time, food production, processing, marketing, and consumption have evolved and become highly complex. The challenges of improving the food system in the 21st century will require systemic approaches that take full account of social, economic, ecological, and evolutionary factors. Policy or business interventions involving a segment of the food system often have consequences beyond the original issue the intervention was meant to address. A Framework for Assessing Effects of the Food System develops an analytical framework for assessing effects associated with the ways in which food is grown, processed, distributed, marketed, retailed, and consumed in the United States. The framework will allow users to recognize effects across the full food system, consider all domains and dimensions of effects, account for systems dynamics and complexities, and choose appropriate methods for analysis. This report provides example applications of the framework based on complex questions that are currently under debate: consumption of a healthy and safe diet, food security, animal welfare, and preserving the environment and its resources. A Framework for Assessing Effects of the Food System describes the U.S. food system and provides a brief history of its evolution into the current system. This report identifies some of the real and potential implications of the current system in terms of its health, environmental, and socioeconomic effects along with a sense for the complexities of the system, potential metrics, and some of the data needs that are required to assess the effects. The overview of the food system and the framework described in this report will be an essential resource for decision makers, researchers, and others to examine the possible impacts of alternative policies or agricultural or food processing practices.
List of Available Publications of the United States Department of Agriculture
Author: United States. Department of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description