Food Fight: The People's Guide to Food Safety in a Dangerous World

Completely revised, 2nd edition of this handy and factual guide to food safety. Even with current programs and safeguards in place, approximately 76 million Americans will fall victim to water- or food-borne illness each year - of these, more than 5000 will die. And these statistics precede our newest threat: the deliberate contamination of destruction of our food supply. Includes chapters on salmonella, E. coli, anthrax, staph, listeria, botulism, plague, cryptosporidium, cholera, mad cow disease, viruses and agri-terrorism.