Scientific Criteria to Ensure Safe Food (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780309089289)

Food safety regulators face a daunting task: crafting food safety performance standards and systems that continue in the tradition of using the best available science to protect the health of the American public, while working within an increasingly antiquated and fragmented regulatory framework. Current food safety standards have been set over a period of years and under diverse circumstances, based on a host of scientific, legal, and practical constraints.

Scientific Criteria to Ensure Safe Food lays the groundwork for creating new regulations that are consistent, reliable, and ensure the best protection for the health of American consumers. This book addresses the biggest concerns in food safety--including microbial disease surveillance plans, tools for establishing food safety criteria, and issues specific to meat, dairy, poultry, seafood, and produce. It provides a candid analysis of the problems with the current system, and outlines the major components of the task at hand: creating workable, streamlined food safety standards and practices.

Author: National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Division on Earth and Life Studies
ISBN-10: 030908928X
ISBN-13: 9780309089289
Publisher: National Academies Press
Language: English
Published: 09/29/2003
Pages: 424
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.51lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.45w x 1.04d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2004 pg. 2077