Food Safety

Hot Topics

BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy or Mad Cow Disease)

Current food recalls from USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service.

Foodborne disease declining Preliminary report published in MMRW April 30, 2004 vol. 53(16) pp 338-343 by Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. Final report due at the end of the year.

Bibliographic resources

Indexes

• Food Safety journal indexes
• Library Catalogs
• General magazines and newspapers
• Other agriculture and life science journal indexes
• Current awareness services

  Useful guides

Syntax Guide to searching selected journal index services.
How to get an article : guide to NDSU journal collections.
How to publish in top journals by Kwan Choi, editor International Review of Economics

Online journals

• Online journals related to microbiology available to NDSU
• Online journals related to food & nutrition available to NDSU.

 

Selected Internet Sites

• Best Practices: Beef industry standards for beef slaughter and meat handling and processing. Developed by the Beef Industry Food Safety Council and sponsored by the Beef Checkoff system.
• Food Safety Information Center of the National Agricultural Library Information, resources, research reports, and abstracts of research in progress. Includes sections from the Foodborne Illness Education Center, the Food Safety Training and Education Alliance, and the Food Safety Research Information Office.
• Food Safety Inspection Service (USDA). FSIS is responsible for ensuring the safety of meat, poultry and egg products in the U.S. FSIS conducts food inspections, furnishes information on testing protocols and food safety analysis, and publishes food safety consumer information . The FSIS site is browsable and searchable, and also includes a hot line.
• Food and Nutrition (FAO) Provides international information on human nutrition (including nutrition country profiles,. food composition, nutritional assessment, nutritional requirements, HIV/AIDS) and a Food Safety and Quality section (including text of Codex Alimentarius,. risk assessments, food control systems). Provided by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations.
• Food Saafety Inspection Service Education Site Consumer oriented site with informatin, and ask-an-exert features.

• Food Safety Sites: Food Science section of the Michigan Electronic Library focuses on food safety issues and resources including foodborne illness, food handling, food processing.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) CDC serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States. Food safety information can be found in many of their published statistics and periodicals including Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
• Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) - Includes news factsheets, documents and links. Topics include biotechnology; consummer advice, food additives, pesticides and chemicals; foodborne illness; food labeling and nutrition information, imports, inspections and HACCP, and much more. CFSAN is an agency of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
• Food Safety on the Internet Provided by the NDSU Extension Service. Also includes categorized links to nutrition, foods, and health related web sites, agencies, directories, etc.
• Great Plains Institute of Food Safety
• NDSU Extension publications: Food Safety.
  
• U.S. Economic Research Service Briefing Room: Food Safety: provides analyses of economic issues that affect the safety of the U.S. food supply, including the effectiveness and equity of alternative policies and programs designed to protect consumers from unsafe food.
• Nutrition.gov. Comprehensive links to all alspects of nutrition and health information sites and publications produced by the federal government. Searchable, and also can be navigated by links to subject categories. Produced by numerous different agencies of the federal government, this site is intended to provide "easy access to all online federal government information on nutrition.... healthy eating, physical activity, and food safety..."
• Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology: Food Safety site: The Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology offers "news and information on agricultural biotechnology and genetically modified food from an independent and objective source for the public, media and policymakers."
  
• Food Safety subfile of Nutrition.gov. Searchable database of government information on all aspects of food safety. "Gateway to government food safety information".
• SciTechResources.gov. Catalog of government science and technology web sites and government resources. Searchable, or browsable by general catagories, including Agriculture and Food and sub-categories including Food Safety
• Gateway to Government Food Safety Information Searchable directory of federal sites containing food safety information.
• Martindale's Virtual Nutrition Center Links to resources, tutorials, databases, handbooks, manuals, and informative sites.
• Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Online "Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada provides information, research and technology, and policies and programs to achieve security of the food system, health of the environment and innovation for growth." Includes a Food Safety section.

• Encyclopedia of food toxicology (REFERENCE RA1258 .D46 2002)
• Food standards and labeling policy book (REFERENCE TS1975 .U56 1996)
• Food safety sourcebook (REFERENCE R111 .H43 vol. 50)
• Food safety : a reference handbook (REFERENCE TX531 .R44 2000)
• Food safety law (KF1900 .F66 1997)
• Foodborne disease handbook(QR201.F62 F668 2001)
• International standards for food safety (TX537 .I58 2000)
• The microbiological safety and quality of food (REFERENCE QR115 .M466 2000)