There is a need for a book that explains to the public what food safety is all about and that gives policy-makers and managers the conceptual framework to make sensible judgements on 'food crises' when they hit the headlines. The preface of this book does not say for whom it is written or what its aims are. But it comes from Hugh Penning-ton, who led Britain's inquiry into the outbreak of food poisoning caused by the bacterium Escherichia coli O157 in Wishaw in Scotland in November 1996.
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