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America has made a lot of changes in the past on becoming more inventive, resourceful, and as well as industrialized. Due to the variations in how our food industries operate, small family-owned farms have rapidly vanished leaving us with large, industrialized productions that mass produce for the benefit of the Large Corporations. Americans expect to be able to have large quantities of food available for purchase at anytime and at a low price. Unfortunately in order to get that food to us at…

In the year of 2015 Chipotle Mexican Grill, originally known for its fresh twist to fast food, were hit with a major scandal. The company faced a massive crisis with several food borne diseases, such as Escherichia (E.) coli, Salmonella, as well as the Norovirus. The crisis for this food chain company left them scrambling for solutions, as well as attempting to gain back the consumers trust. The management crisis faced by Chipotle began around July 2015 and carried throughout to early 2016.…

number of different types of pathogens mentioned that might be found in a gym. These range from bacteria such as Klebsiella, Escherichia Coli, Staphylococcus aureus and its cousin MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), Streptococcal, Salmonella, Pseudomonas aeruginosa; viruses like Human Papillomavirus, Influenza, Norovirus, Hepatitis A, Rhinovirus; fungus in the form of Candida and parasites such as Cryptosporidium amongst many possible others (Reyes, 2012), (Johnson, 2011), (Men’s…

Food is one of the most important resources on Earth; everyone needs to eat to live. The worldwide need for nutrition creates a massively wealthy industry. Food production is a large scale business, and maximizing profits is the most important element of this industry. Margaret Atwood creates a parallel of this greed in her book Oryx and Crake. The food industry in Oryx and Crake is much more dramatically adulterated: meat and other food products have been mostly replaced with soy, and some…

for quicker production means but the products that these animals produce are also extracted from them in unethical ways as well. While some studies show a favoring towards free range , as apposed to caged chickens, in slightly smaller levels of salmonella among the former chickens, in actuality there really much difference in the lives that these animals lead (Leeder). While food production started as…

safe and healthy. Abandoning the use of antibiotics in food producing animals would create a major threat to the quality and quantity of meat production, presenting the potential for spread of serious food borne illnesses, including E. Coli and Salmonella. Did you know, humans are more likely to become ill from the consumption of contaminated meat than to encounter antibiotic resistant bacteria? Antibiotics are used in food producing animals to limit the risk of cross contamination in meat- the…

The Story While Chipotle was taking a step towards the well being of its customers, many believe this action started an attack that caused more harm than good. In 2015, Timothy B. Lee of Vox.com wrote an article that discussed the rise of people getting sick from eating Chipotle. At the time, Chipotle was getting the word out about the changes they decided to make in their restaurants. They made the statement that all their foods were now going to be free of genetically modified organisms. They…

Signs and Symptoms: HIV should be viewed as a continuum which includes initial infection, asymptomatic latent infection, symptomatic infection and end-stage AIDS diagnosis. The progression along a person’s continuum cannot be predicted as it varies from person to person. Since each person’s progression through HIV is different, each person should be viewed as an individual regardless of symptoms they may present with. There are various symptoms that a person can present with during the…

healthy future, the government must provide better information about the contents in these processed foods. From a young age, we cram foods into our bodies that destroy us from the inside out. We worry about the pathogens we may be consuming like salmonella or E. coli instead of the chemicals and preservatives like BHA and azodicarbonamide. However, our diet is more deadly than these pathogens. There are only 3,000 deaths…

Name: Lori A. Barbera Course: Food Law and Regulations (NFS 4160) Date: October 19th, 2015 Standards and Regulations of Processed Bacon Food Assignment 1 DEFINITION: Bacon is defined as; "salted and smoked meat from the back or sides of a hog" [1]. This is cured meat that is overseen by The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). FSIS is a subsidiary of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), that "requires safe handling instructions on packages of bacon and all other raw or partially…