One of the great myths of contemporary American culture is that
the United States' food supply is the safest in the world because
the government works to guarantee food safety and enforce certain
standards on food producers, processors, and distributors. In
reality U.S. food safety administration and oversight have remained
essentially the same for more than a century, with the Pure Food
and Drug Act and the Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 continuing
to frame national policy despite dramatic changes in production,
processing, and distribution throughout the twentieth
century.
"In Food We Trust" is the first comprehensive examination of the
history of food safety policy in the United States, analyzing
critical moments in food safety history from Upton Sinclair's
publication of "The Jungle "to Congress's passage of the 2010 Food
Safety Modernization Act. With five case studies of significant
food safety crises ranging from the 1959 chemical contamination of
cranberries to the 2009 outbreak of salmonella in peanut butter,
"In Food We Trust" contextualizes a changing food regulatory regime
and explains how federal agencies are fundamentally limited in
their power to safeguard the food supply.
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