HLSC 2P21 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Radiography, Slow Food, Foodborne Illness
2 Dec 2016
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Food production & consumption: changes in world population will weigh heavily on patterns of food production and consumption, these patterns also change based on other often competing incentives between producers and consumers. Moved from a society that has generally been a slow consumer of food to a generation that consumes fast food. Invented because they"re necessary or necessary because they"re invented: regulation in food and agriculture in north america. Industries self regulate has created numerous deaths/poisonings etc. Canadian irradiation logo: the labelling requirements for irradiated food products are set out in section b. 01. 035 of the fda regulations. : must be labelled in canada, sterilize food using x-rays, gamma rays etc. Gmo: salmon has recently been approved in canada to be sold in stores (last 8 months) Irradiation: industrialization of animal-based food production. Cafos (mcdonalds operates the largest in the world) Feed renderings from other animals (not anymore the brain/spinal cord/ uid) Last case of bse was february 2015.
