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Pet food politics : the Chihuahua in the coal mine / Marion Nestle.
LIBRA SF414 .N47 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nestle, Marion.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pets--Feeding and feeds--United States--Contamination.
- Pets.
- Pets--Feeding and feeds.
- United States.
- Product recall--United States.
- Product recall.
- Physical Description:
- 219 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- 1 A Recall to Break All Records 9
- 2 A Brief Historical Digression 15
- 3 The Sequence of Events 27
- 4 What Is Menu Foods? 42
- 5 Menu's Muddled Response: What, When, and Where 50
- 6 The Cat and Dog Body Count 55
- 7 A Toxic False Alarm: Aminopterin 61
- 8 At Last the Culprit: Melamine 63
- 9 Melamine: A Source of Dietary Nitrogen 69
- 10 Melamine: A Fraudulent Adulterant, But Puzzling 77
- 11 How Much Melamine Was in the Pet Food? 81
- 12 Mystery Solved: Cyanuric Acid 83
- 13 The China Connection 88
- 14 More Melamine: Rice and Corn "Proteins" 97
- 15 More Melamine Eaters: Farm Animals and People 105
- 16 The FDA's Response 114
- 17 Repercussion #1: China's Food Safety System 123
- 18 Repercussion #2: The China Backlash 133
- 19 Repercussion #3: The FDA in Crisis 143
- 20 Repercussion #4: Pet Food Politics 156
- Appendix The Melamine Recalls List 175.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-203) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520257818
- 0520257812
- OCLC:
- 192045493
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