The Food Safety Series
TAINTED
From Farm Gate to Dinner Plate, Fifty Years of Food Safety Failures
Salmonella in eggs. Listeria in deli meats. Melamine in milk. Cyclospora in lettuce.
In a world where irrigation water is contaminated by run-off from cattle feedlots and where food processors cut corners, the food preparation skills we learned from our parents and grandparents are no longer good enough to keep us safe.
Using a variety of foodborne disease outbreaks, often illustrated with the stories of individual victims, TAINTED explores the ways in which food becomes contaminated. Some of the stories – such as the deadly 1993 Jack in the Box outbreak – will be very familiar. Others will not.
In this update to her 2007 book, Food Safety: Old Habits, New Perspectives, Phyllis Entis draws on nearly five decades of experience to explain how our regulatory systems have failed us, and to talk about what can be done to protect consumers from unsafe food.
TOXIC
From Factory to Food Bowl, Pet Food Is a Risky Business
Who would have thought that kibble could kill?
TOXIC, a companion volume to the Amazon international best-seller, TAINTED, offers a behind-the-scenes look at some of the most notorious pet food safety scandals of the current century.
Whether the subject is pentobarbital in canned dog food, aflatoxin in kibble, or Salmonella in commercial raw pet foods, TOXIC provides insight into pet food industry practices and gives pet owners tips to help keep their animal companions safe and healthy.
It’s a Mystery!
MILLIE DICKENS, PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR
Six months after the unexpected death of her husband, Carmel-by-the-Sea’s deputy chief of police, Millie Dickens is still trying to come to terms with her loss.
After learning that her husband was falsely identified as the chief investigating officer for a botched police investigation into a double murder that took place the year before, she sets aside her grief to revisit the investigation on behalf of the victims’ son.
While pursuing her quest, Millie begins to suspect that her husband’s death was no accident. She discovers he had been working undercover to expose a tangled web of corruption, drug-smuggling, and human trafficking on the Central California coast.
As she stitches together the disparate threads of her late husband’s investigation, she identifies a pattern that leads her directly to the office of Carmel’s Chief of Police.
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