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HANDBOOK
FOOD SAFETY
HANDBOOK
RONALD H. SCHMIDT
and
GARY E. RODRICK
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CONTENTS
Preface xi
Index 801
PREFACE
Food safety legislation and regulations have long been impacted by a variety
of factors, including socioeconomic, consumer, political, and legal issues. With
regard to food safety issues and concerns, certain parallels can be drawn
between the beginning and close of the 20th century. At the start of the 20th
century, several food safety issues were brought to the public’s attention.
Atrocious sanitation problems in the meat industry, highlighted in Upton Sin-
clair’s novel The Jungle, had a major influence on the passage of the landmark
legislation, the Federal Meat Inspection Act (1906). Likewise, fairly wide-spread
food adulteration with the addition of inappropriate chemical substances, and
the marketing of a variety of fraudulent and potentially dangerous elixirs, con-
coctions, and other formulations, led to passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act
(1906).
We are now in the 21st century and, food safety issues have as high a prior-
ity and significance as they did over 100 years ago.” Public concerns have
arisen regarding high-profile food-borne illness outbreaks due to contamination
of food with certain pathogens (e.g., Salmonellu, Escherichiu coli 0 1 57:H7,
Listeriu monocytogmes, and others) which have serious acute impact and
potential chronic long-term complications in the ever-increasing high-risk
population segment (e.g., elderly, children, immuno-compromised). In addition,
food-borne illness outbreaks are occurring in foods previously not considered
high risk (e.g., fruit juices, fresh produce, deli meats). In response to these food-
borne pathogen issues, a presidential budgetary initiative was instituted in 1997
to put a multi-agency food safety strategy in place. This National Food Safety
Initiative includes a nationwide early warning system for food-borne illness,
expanded food safety research, risk assessment, training and education pro-
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