Spoiled: What is Happening to Our Food Supply and Why We are Increasingly at Risk Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Spoiled: What is Happening to Our Food Supply and Why We are Increasingly at Risk Book

Despite frequent media accounts of such unpleasant matters as mad cow disease and outbreaks of food poisoning at fast-food restaurants, Nicols Fox argues, we know too little about the threat that current methods of food manufacture and distribution pose to health. Citing Center for Disease Control figures that put the food poisoning count alone at more than 81 million cases a year in the United States, she notes that in many countries it is unsafe to eat the skins of uncooked vegetables, eggs, ground meat, and other staples. Part of the problem lies in advances in transportation and storage technology, which allow us to consume foods grown very far away and at all seasons; part lies in the fact that bacteria are evolving to survive efforts to contain them. Fox's book is alarming--but appropriately so.Read More

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  • Product Description

    An investigative journalist reveals the truth about foodborne illness, explaining how importing and exporting, processing, packaging, and distribution have led to exposure to a variety of dangerous microbes, combining case histories and scientific research in an assessment of the mounting crisis. Tour."

  • 0465019803
  • 9780465019809
  • Nicols Fox
  • 5 February 1998
  • Basic Books
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 448
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