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146. “Red Dye No 2: The 20-Year Battle,’ New York Times, 28 February 1976.
147. “Red Dye 40 Called a Hazard to Health,” New York Times, 17 December 1976.
148. Lawrence (1986), p. 59; Swanson, Kinsbourne (1980); Mandel (1994).
149. See http://teachers.net.gazette; http://www.nacsg.org.uk.
150. London Food Commission (1988), p. 53.
151. Cannon (1989), p. 24.
152. Walker in Lawrence (1986), p. 13.
153. Cannon (1989), p. 20.
154. Walker in Lawrence (1986), p. 18.
155. Cannon (1989), p. 103.
156. Cooper (1967), p. 17.
157. Food Trade Review, May 1975, p. 46.
158. Cannon (1989), p. 103.
159. Ibid., p. 21.
160. Walker in Lawrence (1986), p. 14.
161. Ibid., p. 20.
162. Ibid., p. 19.
163. Ibid., p. 20.
164. Cannon (1989), p. 130.
165. Ibid., p. 109.
6: Basmati Rice and Baby Milk
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2. http://www.chewonthis.org.uk, accessed December 2006.
3. Shipperbottom (1993).
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5. “Chilean Fruit Pulled from Shelves,” New York Times, 15 March 1989.
6. “Cooking Oil Scandal Hurts Spain Abroad,” New York Times, 19 October 1981.
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8. BBC News, 24 February 2005.
9. BBC News, 19 July 1999.
10. Australian ABC News, 31 July 2006.
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19. “Remote Control,” Guardian, 15 May 2004.
20. Willard (2001), p. 103.
21. “Uzès Journal,” New York Times, 6 February 2004.
22. “Tavera Journal; On Trailblazing Corsica, Sausages with Pedigree,” New York Times, 10 July 2003.
23. “MAFF UK—Instant Coffee Surveillance Exercise,” May 1994, food surveillance information sheet.
24. Mark Woolfe, interview with author, November 2006.
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27. Ravilious (2006), p. 2.
28. Padovan (2003); Martín (1998).
29. Woolfe and Primrose (2004), p. 222.
30. Bligh (2000), passim.
31. Barton Hutt (1978), p. 525.
32. Ibid.
33. “New York City Plans Limit on Restaurants’ Use of Trans Fats,” New York Times, 27 September 2006.
34. Nestle (2006), p. 123.
35. Reed (1975).
36. Lawrence (2004), p. 109.
37. Whitley (2006), chap. 1.
38. Ibid.
39. Ibid.
40. Davies (2004).
41. Purvis (2005).
42. Ibid.
43. Davies (2004).
44. Purvis (2005).
45. Ibid.
46. Picard (2002).
47. Purvis (2005).
48. Beaudoin (2000), p. 245.
49. Ibid.
50. Quoted in http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/press_releases/eu_commission_calls_gm_con.html, accessed January 2007.
51. http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0727-06.htm, accessed January 2007.
52. Ely (1990), p. 9.
53. Barton Hutt (1972), p. 522.
54. New York Times, 19 February 1972.
55. “Filth,” Sunday Gazette-Mail, West Virginia, 20 February 1972.
56. Barton Hutt (1978), p. 522.
57. http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/dms/dalbook.html#CHPTA.
58. Lyon (1994).
59. Quoted in http://www.dietdetective.com, accessed January 2007.
60. London Food Commission (1988), p. 81.
61. Ibid., p. 83.
62. http://www.soilassociation.org/web/sa/saweb.nsf/, accessed January 2007.
63. Nestle (2006), p. 465.
64. Cited in Burros (2003).
65. Guardian, 22 September 2006.
66. Burros (2003).
67. Cooper (2000), p. 206.
68. The term was invented by Steven Bratman, M.D.; see http://www.orthorexia.com.
69. “When Healthy Eating Turns into a Disease,” Guardian, 10 October 2006.
70. “Original Essay on Orthorexia,” http://www.orthorexia.com.
71. Nina Planck, Op-Ed, New York Times, 23 November 2005.
72. “Celebrity Restaurant Fined over Fake “Organic” Dishes,” The Times, 19 December 2006.
73. http://www.comcom.govt.nz/MediaCentre/MediaReleases/200506/fakeorganicslandbutcherwithmeaty10.aspx, accessed January 2007.
74. “Millions of Faked Freerange Eggs Dupe Shoppers,” Daily Telegraph, 17 November 2006.
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77. E-mail to the author, 13 January 2007.
78. The Times, 24 July 2006.
79. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=625522004, accessed January 2007; Reuters, 4 December 2006.
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81. “Ex-Chief of China Food and Notes Drug Unit Sentenced to Death for Graft ,” New York Times, 30 May 2007; “Death Sentence for Drugs Chief Who Took Bribes to Clear Killer Medicines,” The Times, 30 May 2007.
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84. “China Faces Fake Baby Milk Scandal,” Food Production Daily.com, 22 April 2004.
85. “Infants in Chinese City Starve on Protein-Short Formula,” New York Times, 5 May 2004.
86. “China ‘Fake Milk’ Scandal Deepens,” BBC News, 22 April 2004.
87. “Infants in Chinese City Starve on Protein-Short Formula.”
88. “Shopkeeper Punished for Fake Milk Powder,” China Daily, 6 August 2004.
89. “Chinese Milk Blamed for 50 Deaths,” Guardian, 21 April 2004.
90. Ibid.
91. “Infants in Chinese City Starve on Protein-Short Formula.”
92. New Age Metro, 19 August 2005.
93. Bangladesh Independent, 3 November 2003.
94. Daily Star, 7 February 2006.
95. Bangladesh Observer, 2 July 2006.
96. Daily Star, 7 February 2006.
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2. Nestle (2002).
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