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Books on: pesticides in food

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Controversies in Food and Nutrition

Book by Myrna Chandler Goldstein, Mark A. Goldstein M. D.; Greenwood Press, 2002

Subjects:

Food, Nutrition

Collections: Entire Library

You can never have too many vitamins, until they kill you. Eat meat, but avoid beef, chicken, turkey, and pork. Packaged foods are more efficiently preserved than they were 100 years ago--but should we actually eat the stuff? Consumers are besieged with conflicting messages about food and nutrition ...
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You can never have too many vitamins, until they kill you. Eat meat, but avoid beef, chicken, turkey, and pork. Packaged foods are more efficiently preserved than they were 100 years ago--but should we actually eat the stuff? Consumers are besieged with conflicting messages about food and nutrition, making it difficult for the average customer to know what to believe. Is anything safe at McDonald's? Do carbohydrates cause obesity? This provocative new resource explores 15 common controversies in the field of food and nutrition.
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The Food Safety Information Handbook

Book by Cynthia A. Roberts; Oryx Press, 2001

Subjects:

Food Adulteration And Inspection, Food Contamination

Collections: Entire Library

Outbreaks of E. Coli and Salmonella from eating tainted meat or chicken and Mad Cow Disease have consumers and the media focused on food safety-related topics. This handbook aimed at students as well as consumers is an excellent starting point for locating both print and electronic resources with ...
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Outbreaks of E. Coli and Salmonella from eating tainted meat or chicken and Mad Cow Disease have consumers and the media focused on food safety-related topics. This handbook aimed at students as well as consumers is an excellent starting point for locating both print and electronic resources with timely information about food safety issues, organizations and associations, and careers in the field.
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Population and Food: Global Trends and Future Prospects

Book by Tim Dyson; Routledge, 1996

Subjects:

Food Supply, Population

Collections: Entire Library

The book suggests that food production in most world regions has kept ahead of population growth, that future food production prospects are encouraging, and that probably the people of the world will be better fed in the 21st than in the 20th century.
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Bringing the Food Economy Home: Local Alternatives to Global Agribusiness

Book by Helena Norberg-Hodge, Todd Merrifield, Steven Gorelick; Kumarian Press, 2002

Subjects:

Farmers' Markets, Food--Marketing

Collections: Entire Library

...glo- bal food system. In the United...transport of pesticides and fertilizers-mainstays...nitrogen in fertilizers...quantities of pesticides are lost...water, food, fodder...ganic farms in local food systems...residues of pesticides, herbicides...
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Women Farmers and Commercial Ventures: Increasing Food Security in Developing Countries

Book by Anita Spring; Lynne Rienner, 2000

Subjects:

Agriculture--Economic Aspects--Developing Countries--Case Studies, Food Supply--Developing Countries--Case Studies, Women In Agriculture--Developing Countries--Case Studies

Collections: Entire Library

...the Impacts of Pesticides and Integrated Pest...Intrahousehold Transfers, Food Acquisition, and Export Cropping in Guatemala Elizabeth...use them on both food and cash crops. Although...agrochemicals (herbicides, pesticides), womens labor in weeding is high...

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Journal Articles on: pesticides in food

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OP Pesticides in Children's Bodies: The Effects of a Conventional versus Organic Diet

Journal article by Julia R. Barrett; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 114, 2006

Subjects:

Children, Office equipment and supplies industry, Office equipment industry, Pesticides

Collections: Entire Library

...diet-derived pesticides levels in childrens bodies...conventionally grown food products and...Pesticides in the Diets of...exposure to pesticides. This exposure...consume more food on a per-weight...residual OP pesticides in food correspond...
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Pesticides in Surface Drinking-Water Supplies of the Northern Great Plains

Journal article by David B. Donald, Allan J. Cessna, Ed Sverko, Nancy E. Glozier; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 115, 2007

Subjects:

Drinking water--Health aspects, Drinking water--Research, Pesticides--Complications and side effects, Pesticides--Research, Water pollution--Canada, Water pollution--Causes of, Water pollution--Research

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...exposed to agricultural pesticides either directly during...applications or indirectly in air, water, or food. In the northern Great...States and Canada, pesticides have been detected in atmospheric samples...and in a variety of food products. Studies...
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Persistent Pesticides in Human Breast Milk and Cryptorchidism

Journal article by Ida N. Damgaard, Niels E. Skakkebaek, Jorma Toppari, Helena E. Virtanen, Heqing Shen, Karl-Werner Schramm, Jorgen H. Petersen, Tina K. Jensen, Katharina M. Main; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 114, 2006

Subjects:

Children, Pesticides

Collections: Entire Library

...atmospheric dissipation, and less from imported food products and increased traveling activity to areas with ongoing use of pesticides such as DDT for malaria control. Levels...investigated pesticides have generally declined in the study area, whereas the birth prevalence...
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Testing Toxic Pesticides in Humans: Health Risks with No Health Benefits

Journal article by Ronald L. Melnick, James Huff; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 112, 2004

Subjects:

Pesticides--Health aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...water we drink, the food we eat, and the places...fundamental question in the debate on how...equated studies of pesticides in humans to clinical...for testing toxic pesticides in humans is to influence...farm group, and food processors, acknowledged...
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Environmental Exposure Assessment of Pesticides in Farmworker Homes

Journal article by Jane A. Hoppin, John L. Adgate, Monty Eberhart, Marcia Nishioka, P. Barry Ryan; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 114, 2006

Subjects:

Pesticides

Collections: Entire Library

...more intensive assessment of pesticides in food comes from the "duplicate plate...population, is the level of pesticides in food and the potential exposures...Because direct measurement of pesticides in food is time consuming and difficult...

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Magazine Articles on: pesticides in food

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We Must Get Rid of Pesticides in the Food Supply: Exposure to These Deadly Chemicals Can Cause Cancer, Birth Defects, and Neurological Damage

Magazine article by Al Meyerhoff; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 122, November 1993

Subjects:

Parathion--Health aspects, Pesticide residues--Health aspects, Pesticides--Health aspects

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We Must Get Rid of Pesticides in the Food Supply: Exposure to These Deadly...young children from exposure to pesticides in the food supply. The Academy stated...greater exposure to multiple pesticides in food, by body weight, than occur...
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FDA Reports on Pesticides in Foods

Magazine article by Judith E. Foulke; FDA Consumer, Vol. 27, June 1993

Subjects:

Pesticide residues--Analysis, United States. Food and Drug Administration--Reports

Collections: Entire Library

...residues of pesticides in foods are...and the Food Safety and...using it in food products...reported in the FDA study...residues of many pesticides can be washed...major infant food manufacturers...only those pesticides specified in the contract...
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British Otters Return to the River: During the 1960s, the Use of Organochlorine Pesticides in Farming Devastated Much of England's Otter Population. but in Recent Years These Charismatic Creatures Have Once Again Begun to Flourish

Magazine article by Nigel Hicks; Geographical, Vol. 76, February 2004

Subjects:

Aquaculture--Safety and security measures, Fish-culture--Safety and security measures, Otters--Environmental aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...when farmers began using organochlorine pesticides, which wiped out a huge swathe of wildlife...Western world. Aldrin and dieldrin, used in seed dressings and sheep dips, were the...that, in the past at least, a restricted food supply was part of the problem. "Twenty...
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Worrying about the Right Issues in Food Safety

Magazine article by Chris W. Lecos; FDA Consumer, Vol. 20, November 1986

Subjects:

Food additives--Public opinion, Food contamination--Laws, regulations and rules, Miller, Sanford A.--Interviews, United States. Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition--Officials and employees

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...fair amount of data on their potency. In addition, our ability to estimate actual...of the most heavily used and best-tested food chemicals. We discovered that the safety...suggest that its additives, preservatives and pesticides that worry the majority of consumers...
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From Tainted Feed to Mothers' Milk; a Pesticide's Devastating Journey through the Food Chain

Magazine article by Dixie Farley; FDA Consumer, Vol. 21, March 1987

Subjects:

Heptachlor--Health aspects, Pesticides--Health aspects, Toxicology--Case studies, United States. Food and Drug Administration--Investigations

Collections: Entire Library

...Mothers Milk; a Pesticides Devastating Journey through the Food Chain. by...formany people in and around Van...Action levels for pesticides like heptachlorare...enforced by FDA. In animal feed, the...most feed and food is 20 parts per...

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Newspaper Articles on: pesticides in food

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Pesticides in Food 'Increase Risk of Cancer for Babies'

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 21, 2006

Subjects:

Cancer research--Health aspects, Cancer--Health aspects, Cancer--Research, Cancer--Risk factors, Food--Health aspects, Oncology, Experimental--Health aspects, Pesticides--Health aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Pesticides in Food Increase Risk of Cancer...through exposure to pesticides and pollutants in food than was previously...exposure to these chemicals in the air, food and water. The most...were at risk. Synthetic pesticides could be a major factor...
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Scientists Warn of Cancer Risk to Tots; HEALTH: New Fears over Chemicals in Food and Breast Milk

Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), March 21, 2006

Subjects:

Breast cancer--Health aspects, Breast cancer--Risk factors, Food--Health aspects, Pesticides--Health aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...developing cancer through exposure to pesticides in food, scientists warned today. Low...involuntary exposure to these chemicals in the air, food and water." Prof Howard said synthetic pesticides could also be a major factor in...
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Veggin' out the Organic Way; WE All Want to Eat More Healthily These Days. Not Only Are We More Conscious of the Amounts of Fat, Salt and Sugar in Our Foods, but Food Lovers Are Demanding to Know the Origins of Their Food and Are Looking for Organic Wares Free from Pesticides and Additives. So to Mark the Start of Organic Fortnight (September 2-17) We Take a Look at Just What Is out There. ANN EVANS Reports. Food

Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), September 2, 2006

Subjects:

Diet, Health foods industry, Natural foods industry, Organic foods, Pesticides, Produce industry, Soil Association

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Fat, Salt and Sugar in Our Foods, but Food Lovers Are Demanding...Organic Wares Free from Pesticides and Additives. So...There has been a boom in specialist organic food shops and farmers...about the chemicals in their food. And what I find sad...
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Your LIFE: Organic from the Very Start; CONCERNS about Pesticides and Additives in Our Food Are Prompting More Parents to Turn to Organic Alternatives. and It's Never Been Easier to "Go Natural" with More Choice Than Ever at Our Disposal. KAREN HAMBRIDGE Meets One Mum Who Decided to Go Organic for the Sake of Her Kids

Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), November 30, 2006

Subjects:

Children, Health foods, Natural foods, Pesticides

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Very Start; CONCERNS about Pesticides and Additives in Our Food Are Prompting More Parents...three and baby Isabelle, in Earlsdon, Coventry, said...them to have more natural food and things that dont contain pesticides and chemicals. "It is a...
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More Pesticides in School Fruit and Veg Than Shops

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), September 21, 2005

Subjects:

Soil Association

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...said a monitoring programme had been set up to test for pesticides in school produce. Fruit and vegetables in the scheme must...pesticide use, the DoH added. The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, said it was misleading to draw percentage...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: pesticides in food

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Organic Food

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...synthetic fertilizers and pesticides and antibiotics may not be used in raising organic foods...fertilizer is also banned. Food whose ingredients...compounded fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, hormones...or chemicals used in food processing (see also...
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Food and Drug Administration

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...honestly labeled. The Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act...procedures for new drugs, pesticides, and additives and colorings in foods and cosmetics...Evaluation and Research, Food Safety and Applied Nutrition...Toxicological Research. In the early 1990s, in response...
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Cancer , in Medicine

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...carcinogenic to a greater or lesser extent, including chemicals in pesticides that leave residues on foods. The Delaney clause, an amendment (1958) to the U.S. Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act that prohibits even minuscule...
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Pesticide

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...or animals) tends to increase the higher the animal is in the food chain. DDT , for example, severely reduced the rate of reproduction in many fish and birds. Chemical pesticides now undergo exhaustive and expensive trials prior to government...
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Organic Farming

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...ornamentals as well without the use of synthetic pesticides, herbicides, or fertilizers. In the United States, as elsewhere, awareness of the...See also Integrated Pest Management ; organic food . See J. I. Rodale et al., ed., The Encyclopedia...

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