Poisons in Your Food: The Dangers You Face and What You Can Do about Them

by Ruth Winter

Overview

This ground-breaking Crown book is back in a new edition with all the latest findings about dangerous foods and what consumers can do to protect themselves.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780517576816
Publisher:	Harmony/Rodale
Publication date:	12/08/1990
Edition description:	New and Revised
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Ruth Winter, MS, is an award-winning author of 37 books. She has contributed to Good Housekeeping, Harper's Bazaar, Self, and Vogue, and has also appeared on many TV programs, including Good Morning America and Today. She runs an informational website Brain Body and blogs about food and cosmetic additives at IngredientBlog.

Editorial Reviews

Many areas of safety and health in the production, distribution, and preparation of food have been of continuing concern since Winter first published this book ( LJ 5/1/69). Areas addressed in this updated edition include insecticides, ``hidden ingredients'' in processed foods, carcinogens, hazardous handling of fish, poultry, and meat, the water supply, restaurants, food-induced sickness and death, convenience foods, home safety, and food labeling. A thorough researcher (472 citations in ``Notes''), Winter makes readers aware of what can go wrong at all steps of the food chain. She points out the many things consumers can do to minimize the risks of food poisoning and possible death. This book is sort of an Earth Day Every Day for our bodies, and should be available in public libraries.-- Patty Miller, New Hampshire Technical Coll. Lib., Laconia

Library Journal