Pasteurization: The Food And Drug Administration (FDA)

Summary After viewing the film “food Inc.” the way I now view the American food industry and our government has changed. I now see the food industry for what it really is, a corrupt business empire that is protected by government officials and policies. In the film it pinpoints many different areas where the food industry has become an injustice to the citizens of America, they have also been protected by laws and policies, and also have treated the cattle, chickens, and other farm animals with such cruelty for profitable gains. Some of the areas where the food industry has become an injustice to its citizens is in the processing of mass food products that are not healthy, the advertising of products to fit the description of farm grown food

Robert Kenner jumps from filming at chicken houses, factories, to the grocery stores. He shows how the FDA and USDA don’t control just a small section of the region, but the entire nation.

Louis Pasteur in 1862, but it took many years of fighting to get the safe and uncontaminated milk for Canadian citizens2. The process of pasteurization is to kill microorganisms, including Salmonella typhi bacteria which leads to typhoid found in the milk and the only way to reduce these bacteria is by heating the milk. Raw milk or unpasteurized milk, can also contain bacteria for E. coli, Listeriosis, and tuberculosis. Earlier, in the twentieth century, diseases like tuberculosis and typhoid led to thousands of deaths and disabilities, but neither of them are serious health risk in Canada

The Food Safety Modernization Act was signed and made into law on January 4, 2011. Could you imagine that buying and selling fresh fruit, vegetables and raw dairy would be made illegal! The reason for this the FDA claims, is the small amounts of dirt and naturally growing bacteria in the food, the new regulations for FSMA (Food Safety Modernization Act) that has been administered by the FDA. All over the United States consumers are shopping at farmers markets and buying raw dairy.

Research Lab Lets Livestock Suffer in Quest for Profit” writer Michael Moss clearly states that the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center (MARC), which is financed by our own American taxpayers, has one major goal—namely, to gain profit for meat producing companies in a time of dietary alteration (Moss). He further explains that even though this company is providing great benefits for our market, the animals are paying a greater cost. Many professionals are involved in these inhumane experiments, whether they agree or disagree, such as James Keen, a scientist and veterinarian who worked for the center for 24 years; “They pay tons of attention to increasing animal production, and just a pebble-sized concern to animal welfare” (Moss). Dr. Keen their employee of many years clearly admits to the mistreatment of animals (Moss). He continues: “And it probably looks fine to them because they’re not thinking about it, and they’re not being held accountable” (Moss). Although Dr. James Keen may seem trivial, he’s objection is in fact crucial in terms of today’s concern over the laws under the Animal Welfare Act being applied and shared equally for the humane treatment of

The FDA plays a very prominent role in everyone’s lives whether people realize it or not. The role of the Food and Drug Administration is to put regulations in place in order to keep the population safe from disease, like ones that come from contamination of meat in slaughterhouses. The problem of contamination of meat often originates from a lack of cleanliness in slaughterhouses and stockyards, which is something that stockyards and slaughterhouses lacked much of in the book Devil in the White City.

Before the Pure Food and Drug Act, food was produced and sold in a manner that left holes in information necessary for consumers health. Food that today would be considered toxic was sold to everyday consumers. After the Industrial Revolution, it became common for people to buy their food from large food suppliers instead of family farmers. Many consumers weren't aware of the conditions of large industrial factories, but many people's opinions changed once their food’s real quality surfaced to the public by muckraker journalists. The Pure Food and Drug Act was the most perpetual aspect of the Progressive Era: the act offered consumers reassurance of what they ate and took as medication, prevented a great deal of illnesses, and led way to

Unlike what we have been thought, milk is unhealthy and it will cause many different diseases in human’s body. Even though that they try to limit the bacteria in raw milk before and after milking, but they just can lower the level of bacteria, they can’t remove all of it, and by drinking milk we transfer diseases to our body (Garedew et al, 2012, p 950). Before milking they will sterilize cow’s breast and also they will inject antibiotics to lower the level of bacteria in cow’s body. They also use sterilize milking equipment so the bacteria available on the equipment will not reach cow’s breast and directly milk. With all those sterilized processes they still need to do the pasteurization process because of

There are many aspects of the Food and Drug Administration’s current regulations that are of great concern to many. For instance, the regulation of GMOs, or genetically modified organisms, is a largely debated subject, especially in relation to genetically modified food, or GM food. As described by nongmoproject.com, “GMOs, or “genetically modified organisms,” are plants or animals that have been genetically engineered with DNA from bacteria, viruses, or other plants and animals. These experimental combinations of genes from different species cannot occur in nature or in traditional crossbreeding.” Most of the American population may not even realize this, but according to nongmoproject.com: “In the U.S., GMOs are in as much as 80% of

To begin we will be discussing the federal Agency called food and drugs administration better known as FDA. As a federal agency the FDA has a lot of responsibility with regulating food and drug safety. The FDA works to provide good medical services and insured food products. The FDA works to support our country so that we can live peacefully and healthily but they don't just stop there they wish to help other countries and have even expanded there work to other countries such as China and Costa Rica. So the FDA holds a big part in our society and we as citizens need to be aware of this.

The Humane Standard was a program that was initiated by Humane Farm Animal Care (HFAC) which is one of the leading nonprofit certification organization that makes sure about the care and health of dairy animals from birth till slaughter. Being a member of a jury to decide about the Humane Standards, considering the Dormant Commerce Clause also known as the Negative Commerce Clause which states that Congress also possess some rights to declare or regulate the commerce affairs in some of the states of the country, Whereas the Equal Protection Clause which is the part of the fourteenth Amendment in the US constitution clearly states that every person within the state has equal rights by the protection of law, I would have warned the company named

Another paramount importance concerning food safety is how many U.S. rural communities within the last few decades since the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. They have found themselves face-to-face with enormous industrial livestock factories which include farm and rural community associations and environmental organizations. Heather claims several these communities delve into fighting against the corporate livestock factories that include farms, community, associations, and environmental organizations. She studies how anti-factory farm battles primarily in the mid-west U.S. deal with underlying struggles against emerging opposing organizations who invest heavily in livestock productions. Heather mentions what livestock corporations forget to mention openly to the public, however, was dealing with cost revenue and a confinement of animal production and slaughter. “In Sullivan County, Missouri, as in hundreds of rural counties across the country, concentrated and vertically integrated swine production brought problems of unanticipated proportions. The “hog hotels,” (Williams, 370)

On August 10 2013 a six year old child (Alf) fell seriously ill after drinking cosmetic bath milk produced by Mootanicals Pty Ltd. Alf contracted ‘Haemolytic uraemic syndrome’ which can lead to death. Tanner (Alf’s father) purchased the milk from ‘Eco Health Store’. Curly Linton, a manager at Eco’s, advised tanner that the milk produced by Mootanicals was a healthier alternative to cows milk. The milk was sold along side, pasteurised milk and in similar packaging however it was unpasteurized and was labeled with ‘for cosmetic/bath purposes’. Evidence shows that the milk could be contaminated with harmful bacteria if it is unpasteurized, and Mootanicals does not test their milk for these bacteria’s. Evidence also shows that unpasteurized milk has a number of benefits however it is common knowledge that many people purchase it to consume despite the fact is illegal to sell unpasteurized milk for human consumption in Australia.

The results suggest that pasteurization kills most pathogens in milk by brief exposure to relatively high temperature. This was demonstrated most beneficially with the 10-6 and 10-7 dilutions wherein the raw milk exhibited 284,000,000 cells/mL and 440,000,000 cells/mL respectively and the pasteurized milk had too few cell colony forming units to even count. Unpasteurized milk is not healthy for people to drink. For example, in a study performed in December of 2001, the bacteria Campylobacter jejuni, a microaerophilic bacteria commonly found in animal feces, was found in unpasteurized milk at an organic dairy farm in Wisconsin and caused 75 people, ages 2 to 63, to become ill.

We are in a very serious situation, when it comes to problems with food. You and I both know that Bovine Growth Hormone (BGH) is (and always will be) experimental, in this kind of circumstance. We don’t have all of the facts. We make several decisions without getting the low-down on the effects of BGH. I feel that we need to get the FDA involved in greater ways. Because that’s the only way that we’ll be safe, in the future. The fact is, any body who has farther evidence that supports the use of BGH needs to get the facts. Personally, I just think that BGH should be