Food Regulation and Safety (Nutrition and Health)

This series provides users with accessible information for evaluating the often conflicting and ever-changing issues surrounding nutrition and healthy living.; This new edition in Lucent’s Nutrition and Health series explores the history and current state of food regulation and safety in the United States. This title covers possible sources of food contamination, recent and historical outbreaks of foodborne illnesses, and various laws and U.S. agencies that attempt to ensure food safety. Multiple viewpoints are offered, with opinions from advocates for reforming the government’s food safety programs, supporters of the government’s programs, and people who say the U.S. food industry is among the safest in the world. Several scientists, researchers, and journalists are also quoted on various aspects of the issue.; Individual volumes focus on a specific health or nutrition-related topic, such as body image, diets and dieting, junk food, or vegetarianism. Each contains a topic overview, information about changing trends, up-to-date scientific analysis, and a look at controversies surrounding the featured subject. The narrative also contains personal anecdotes, informative sidebars, fact boxes, and statistics that help readers understand these topics and how they impact their bodies and their lives. Full-color photographs and detailed tables, charts, graphs and illustrations complement and enhance the text, while ancillary materials such as a glossary, a bibliography and a subject index provide useful tools for further research and discussion. Read more