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Describes several strategies to reduce plate waste in school feeding programs in the U.S. School nutrition programs of the U.S. Department of Agriculture; Indications of excessive plate waste; Benefits of healthy eating. INSETS: USDA School Meal Programs Allow Flexibility in Meeting...;Do Outside Foods Compete With the NSLP?.

Describes the risk of older adults in suffering complications from microbial foodborne illnesses. Reasons why older adults have lower culture-confirmed rates of infection than other age groups; Types of pathogens that infect older adults; Complications of foodborne illnesses. INSETS: FoodNet Data;Nine Pathogens Covered by FoodNet.

Focuses on the risks of microbial foodborne illnesses for children in the United States. Why children have a higher risk for foodborne illnesses; Possibility of developing chronic complications from foodborne illnesses; Incidence of campylobacteriosis and salmonellosis in children; Information on listeriosis.

Presents an analysis made by the Economic Research and Service division of the United States Department of Agriculture to the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) pathogen reduction rule for livestock and poultry processing. Modernization of meat and poultry inspection; Benefits from HACCP that hinge on assumptions; Costs of the HACCP rule.

Presents information as it relates to Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) which is the acute cause of scute paralysis in the United States. Background information on the disease; Findings of medical studies conducted; Reference to some of the diseases in the United States which are responsible for the deaths in the United States. INSET: Study considers foodborne illness.

Provides information on the use of irradiation to reduce pathogen contamination in ground beef in the United States. Benefits of using irradiation; Information on health risks that pathogens in ground beef can pose; Why the outlook for ground beef irradiation is uncertain. INSET: Irradiation kills foodborne pathogens..

Provides information on the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) being implemented by the United States Department of Agriculture. Detailed information on the four essential elements of the new food-safety system; Information on the hazard analysis and critical control points plan; Outlook for safer foods.

Provides information on the estimated amount of money seven foodborne diseases cost the United States society in medical charges and lost productivity. Detailed information on the study of the seven foodborne diseases; How to estimate the value of statistical life. INSETS: Study considers seven foodborne illnesses.;Estimating the value of a statistical life..

Reports on foodborne diseases in the United States. Estimated cost of pathogen-control programs; Key foodborne pathogens; Variation in the severity of foodborne illness; Cost-of-illness estimates. INSET: Seven key foodborne pathogens causing illnesses in the United...

Queries whether consumers trust food safety information provided in the United States. Mediums through which this information is relayed; Details on a survey conducted by researchers at the University of Kentucky; Focus of the research; Major concerns relating to food; Activities of the Food Marketing Institute.

Focuses on cases and costs of foodborne diseases in the United States. Foods that contain pathogens; Seven key foodborne pathogens; Factors that increase the risk and severity of a foodborne illness;Cost-of-illness estimates. INSET: Seven key foodborne pathogens causing human illnesses in...

Reveals the opinion of food shoppers on food safety in the United States based on the survey conducted by the University of Kentucky. Top food-safety concerns of the consumers surveyed; Role of demographics in respondents' willingness to pay for food safety; Preventive actions of survey respondents to reduce food safety risks. INSET: About the survey.

Provides information on the regulations that have been proposed by the United States Food and Drug Administration that aims to increase the safety of fresh and processed juices. Increase in juice consumption in the country; Identification of the two regulations designed to make juice safer; Firms that are affected by these regulations.

Reports on the adoption of irradiation by the food industry in the United States. Uses of irradiation that have been approved by federal regulators for meat and poultry; Benefits and cost of using irradiation in food; View regarding the status of irradiation in the food industry.