Table of Contents

Table of Contents


1. Old Habits Die Hard

2. Engineering Errors

3. Recipes for Disaster

4. See No Evil

5. Cross-Contamination

6. Birth of a Pathogen

7. USDA, HACCP, and E. coli O157:H7

8. Crossing Over

9. When the Well Runs Dry

10. Mad Cows and Englishmen

11. The Politics of Prions — BSE and World Trade

12. Asymptomatic Carriers and Captive Audiences

13. Deliberately Contaminated Food

14. The Impact of Imports

15. A Raw Deal

16. The Media and the Message

17. Changing Old Habits

Appendix I. A Microbial Who's Who
Appendix II. Glossary
Appendix III. Abbreviations and Acronyms