Research Catalog

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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Details

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