Biosecurity and the Food Supply
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Food Safety & Inspection Service |
Scientific names: Limonius spp. and others
Wireworms may remain in the soil as larvae from 1 to 3 or more years, depending upon the species and the food supply. Wireworms feed on seeds and root portions of a wide variety of plants. In corn they can destroy germinating seeds and tiny ... [... more]
University of California IPM |
Food Safety
One of the many luxuries Americans enjoy is access to the safest and most abundant food supply in the world. This stems from many advances and improvements in food safety, sanitation, and crop production that reduce the chance of food-safety ... [... more]
Healthline |
How to Take The Right Vitamin Supplement For You
There are a lot of studies which indicate how depleted of nutrients our food supply is. Many medical journals are recommending that we all use vitamin supplements. But not everyone needs to take the exact same supplement. It is possible to take a ... [... more]
eHow |
How to Control Armyworms
Armyworms feed on food crops and garden plants at night. When the food supply is gone, they move en masse to a new site. Hence the name armyworm. Armyworms can destroy an entire plant in just one evening, and there may be as many as three ... [... more]
eHow |
Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
 Stolen Harvest The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply Vandana Shiva The South's best known environmentalist/I (New Internationalist/I) and 1993 Right Livelihood Award winner, Vandana Shiva, continues her path-breaking work on uncovering the devastating [... more]
$56.95
A1 Books |
CARVER + Shock: Enhancing Food Defense
A risk-assessment tool helps companies protect themselves against deliberate contamination of the food supply. Food safety concerns used to focus solely on accidental contamination. But in recent years, there has been concern that terrorists ... [... more]
Food & Drug Administration |
Hunger And The Sword: Warfare And Food Supply In Roman ...
Hunger And The Sword: Warfare And Food Supply In Roman Republican Wars (264-30 B. C.) (dutch Monographs On Ancient History And Archaeology) [... more]
$81.25
A1 Books |
Dietary Trends, American
Americans have become more aware of what they eat, and how it might affect their health. Concerns about the safety of the food supply are on the rise, and increasing nutritional awareness has led to an increase in vegetarian, organic, and ... [... more]
Healthline |
Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
Informative and compelling: In this remarkable book, Vandana Shiva effectively contrasts corporate command-and-control methods of food production with the small farmer economy that predominates in the third world (especially in her native India). In [... more]
$40.00
Amazon.com |
Food Supply Chain Management
Book Description: Food Supply Chain Management Edited by Michael A. Bourlakis and Paul W. H. Weightman The food supply chain is a series of links and inter-dependencies, from farms to food consumers plates, embracing a wide range of disciplines. Food [... more]
$69.99
Amazon.com |
Food Supply Chain Management
Book Description: Food Supply Chain Management Edited by Michael A. Bourlakis and Paul W. H. Weightman The food supply chain is a series of links and inter-dependencies, from farms to food consumers plates, embracing a wide range of disciplines. Food [... more]
$74.99
Amazon.com |
