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Food Safety - Contaminants, Pathogens, and Illnesses (Hardcover)
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Food Safety - Contaminants, Pathogens, and Illnesses (Hardcover)
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responsible for
overseeing the safety of about 80 percent of the nation's food
supply and for promoting good nutrition. Chapter 1 reviews FDA's
food safety- and nutrition-related activities and resources.
Arsenic, an element in the earth's crust, can be harmful to human
health and may be present in water and certain foods, such as rice.
Chapter 2 examines what the National Research Council (NRC) and
recent key scientific reviews have reported about the effects of
ingestion of arsenic on human health, the extent to which FDA and
USDA have managed the risk to human health from arsenic in rice,
and the extent to which FDA has coordinated with USDA and other
federal agencies on actions to manage the risk. Most seafood
consumed in the United States is imported, and about half of it is
raised on fish farms. Because farmed seafood is raised in confined
areas and susceptible to infections, farmers may use drugs like
antibiotics. The use of unapproved drugs or the misuse of approved
drugs may result in unsafe residues in seafood that can cause
cancer or allergic reactions, according to FDA, which is charged
with ensuring the safety of most seafood. Chapter 3examines how FDA
helps ensure the safety of imported seafood from unsafe drug
residues and ways the agency could strengthen its efforts; how FSIS
helps ensure the safety of imported catfish from unsafe drug
residues and ways the agency could strengthen its efforts; and the
extent to which FDA and FSIS coordinate their oversight efforts.
The U.S. food supply is generally considered safe, but the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate that Salmonella
and Campylobacter in food cause about 2 million human illnesses per
year in the United States. Chapter 4 reviews USDA's approach to
reducing pathogens in meat and poultry products. The produce
industry continues to be associated with a series of foodborne
illness outbreaks across multiple U.S. states and Canada, resulting
in hundreds of illnesses and hospitalizations, as well as kidney
failure and death in some cases as reported in chapter 5. The Trump
Administration is proposing to consolidate the federal government's
primary food safety functions into a single federal agency based in
the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) as reported in chapter 6.
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