CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE History of Food Safety 4 CHAPTER TWO What You Eat Can Make You Sick 12 CHAPTER THREE Who Keeps Our Foods Safe 20 CHAPTER FOUR Food Safety Is Everyone’s Business 26 CHAPTER FIVE Keeping Foods Safe 34 Just the Facts 42 In the Kitchen 43 Stop and Think 44 Glossary 46 Learn More 47 Index 48 About the Author 48
CHAPTER ONE HISTORY OF FOOD SAFETY Y ou have just come home from school The first thing you do is head to the refrigerator for some cold milk You start to fill up your glass Wait What’s that terrible odor Your nose tells you the milk is not fresh Will you drink it Of course not You know spoiled milk is not safe to drink Early people learned about food safety the hard way They ate or drank foods that had spoiled and Food safety guidelines have developed over thousands of years as scientists learn more about foods 5
