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A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives: Descriptions in Plain English of More Than 12,000 Ingredients Both Harmful and Desirable Found in Foods - Tapa blanda

Winter, Ruth

 
9781400052325: A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives: Descriptions in Plain English of More Than 12,000 Ingredients Both Harmful and Desirable Found in Foods
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ISBN 10: 1400052327 ISBN 13: 9781400052325
Editorial: Three Rivers Pr, 2004

Sinopsis

Supplies consumers with vital information needed to judge the safety of a wide variety of food additives, updating the reference to encompass the more than twelve thousand ingredients in new food products, and offers detailed explanations of food production technologies, safe storage procedures, and the new label regulations. Original. 15,000 first prinitng.

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<b>Ruth Winter</b>, M.S., is an award-winning science writer who is nationally known for her many books and for her magazine articles in Family Circle, Woman's Day, Omni, and Reader's Digest. She is also the author of A Consumer's Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients and A Consumer's Dictionary of Medicines: Prescription, Over-the-Counter, Homeopathic, and Herbal.

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The essential guide for making sure your food is safe<br><br><i>A Consumer’s Dictionary of Food Additives</i> is back again, in an updated sixth edition. This valuable reference gives you all the facts about the relative safety and side effects of more than 12,000 ingredients that end up in your food as a result of processing and curing, such as preservatives, food-tainting pesticides, and animal drugs. For example, drugs used to tranquilize pigs may sedate diners!<br><br>There are hundreds of new entries to this edition, and topics covered include information about recently discovered resistant strains of bacteria credited to the antibiotics added to animal feed, as well as startling statistics on the amount of money spent on certain additives each year—$1.4 billion—on just flavorings and flavor enhancers.<br><br><i>A Consumer’s Dictionary of Food Additives</i> is a precise tool that will tell you exactly what to leave on supermarket shelves as a reminder to manufacturers that you know what the labels mean and which products are safe to bring home to your family.

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Editorial
Three Rivers Pr
Año de publicación
2004
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1400052327
ISBN 13 
9781400052325
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
579
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