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Food poisoning, policy, and politics : corned beef and typhoid in Britain in the 1960s
- Title
- Food poisoning, policy, and politics : corned beef and typhoid in Britain in the 1960s / David F. Smith and H. Lesley Diack with T. Hugh Pennington and Elizabeth M. Russell.
- Author
- Smith, David F., 1954-
- Publication
- Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2005.
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- Additional Authors
- Diack, H. Lesley.
- Description
- xiv, 334 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Study of the 1963/4 typhoid outbreak, highlighting issues and debates which are strikingly relevant today"--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects
- Food poisoning > Great Britain
- United Kingdom
- Salmonella Food Poisoning > history
- Food Preservation > history
- Health Policy
- Corned beef > Great Britain
- Food Inspection > history
- Food contamination > Government policy > Great Britain
- Typhoid fever > Great Britain > Epidemiology
- Typhoid Fever > history
- Meat > poisoning
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The earlier history of typhoid and food poisoning -- The 1963 corned beef-associated typhoid outbreaks in Harlow, South Shields and Bedford -- The Aberdeen typhoid outbreak -- The medical officer of health, the media and the public in the Aberdeen typhoid outbreak -- Ministers, officials and the Aberdeen typhoid outbreak -- The Milne committee of enquiry -- The recommendation on the inspection of overseas meat plants: the roles of existing policy agendas, and inter-departmental and inter-professional tensions -- The disposal of suspect canned meat: the priority of politics over technical advice -- British action to encourage improvements in Argentine meat hygiene 1964-9 -- Summary and conclusions, and food safety since 1964.
- ISBN
- 1843831384 (hardback : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005001771
- OCLC
- ocm57506842
- SCSB-5202547
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries