Caroline Willis*, Jim McLauchlin, Corinne Amar, Lorraine Sadler-Reeves, Nicola Elviss, Heather Aird, Andrew Fox and Moira Kaye 1 Public Health England Food Water and Environmental Microbiology Laboratory Porton, Porton Down, Salisbury. Public Health England Food Water and Environmental Microbiology Laboratory London, Colindale, London. Gastrointestinal Bacteria Reference Unit, Public Health Eng...

Food in its many manifestations allows us to explore the global control of health and to examine the ways in which food choice is moulded by many interests. The global food market is controlled by a small number of companies who operate a system that delivers 'cheap' food to the countries of the developed world. This 'cheap' food comes at a price, which externalises costs to the nation state in...

Cassell's series of Clinical Manuals would not have been complete without a work dealing with this subject; and if this volume does not add much to the information given byexisting treatises, yet it is much to be commended for the excellent arrangement of its contents, which, under the two main heads of the title, are subdivided into all necessary detail. It seems inevitable that writers on Foo...

Poor nutrition, foodborne disease and lack of secure access to good food make an important contribution to the burden of disease and death in the WHO European Region. Better diets, food safety and food security will not only reduce or prevent suffering to individuals and societies but also help cut costs to health care systems and bring social and economic benefits to countries. People's chance...

We outline in this paper a suite of methods, and illustrate their use, to empirically determine food self-sufficiency at a relatively small (Local Health Areas) level of geography. Further we have, after identifying regions of lowest food self-sufficiency in British Columbia (BC) superimposed these on regions whose populations have relatively poor dietary ill health. Approximately one third of ...

BACKGROUND There is an increasing awareness that the provision of healthy food relies on the co-ordinated efforts of a number of diverse disciplines, not merely those traditionally linked with food. This paper documents the development of a food and health strategy, commissioned by the health alliance for the city of Cardiff, and focuses on the areas of sustainability, education and training as...

T ODAY’S CONSUMERS ARE AT the center of a perplexing and changing nutrition environment, particularly when it comes to eating healthfully and reducing health risks associated with overweight and obesity.With instant access to information, itmight seem that Americans have “knowledge” literally at their fingertips, yet evidence suggests that they are not acting on this knowledge when it comes to ...