Contact
Privacy
Category: usda
Quotes of Category: usda
TOP TAGS :languorunbeliefsystemic-racismfood-safetymiscommunicationslavery-historynegotiationsmistakes-man-makes

  1. Michael Pollan _ The Omnivore's Dilemma: A

    USDA regulations spell out precisely what sort of facility and system is permissible, but they don't set thresholds for food-borne pathogens. {That would require the USDA to recall meat from packers who failed to meet the standards, something the USDA, incredibly, lacks the authority to do.}
    book-quoteusda

  2. Eric Schlosser _ Fast Food Nation: The Dark

    A nationwide study published by the USDA in 1996 found that {...} 78.6 percent of the ground beef contained microbes that are spread primarily by fecal matter. The medical literature on the causes of food poisoning is full of euphemisms and dry scientific terms: coliform levels, aerobic plate counts, sorbitol, MacConkey agar, and so on. Behind them lies a simple explanation for why eating hamburger meat makes you sick: There is shit in the meat.
    book-quoteshitmeatfast-food
Categories