000			02887 a2200265 4500
999			_c10640 _d10640
020			_a9781785786112
050			_aTS1955 _bCOU 2021
100			_aCoudray, Guillaume _d19--? _eauthor
245			_aWho poisoned your bacon sandwich? : _bthe dangerous history of meat additives / _cGuillaume Coudray; translated by Watson David
264			_aLondon : _bIcon Books, _c2021
300			_axv, 384 pages : _b22cm
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
500			_aPopular works
505			_aPart 1. In the pink: how your bacon ended up full of nitrate and nitrite -- 1. Miracle additives -- 2. The truth behind the Golden Legend -- 3. The triumph of meatpacking -- 4. Rapid curing takes over the world -- 5. A chemical success story -- 6. Pure food versus nitro-meat -- 7. Wonder product of the 20th century: sodium nitrates -- 8. Nitrite in the United Kingdom and in France -- 9. The nitroso surprise -- Part 2. How to make cancer acceptable: bring on botulism -- 10. Botulism, the 'blood sausage poison' -- 11. The botulism prextext -- 12. A case study: sodium nitrite and smoked fish -- 13. Warnings and denials -- 14. The 'no alternative' lie -- 15. Contesting the health argument -- 16. After the war -- 17. Alice in Nitroland -- 18. Bluff, subterfuge, hogwash: the art of nitro-poker -- Conclusion.
520			_a "A powerful exploration of the use of carcinogenic nitro-additives in the meat millions of people eat every week. The result of more than five years of detailed research, documentary filmmaker Guillaume Coudray's book demonstrates why many in the media are now comparing the processed meat industry with Big Tobacco. The first part of the book explores why nitro-additives came to be used systematically in meat processing. The second explains why, since the 1950s, meat-packing companies across the West have, it is alleged, repeatedly denied the links between the chemicals used in making bacon and ham, and the onset of bowel cancer - among many other health problems. As Cochonneries (La Decouverte, 2017), the original book led to widespread coverage in France and a hard-hitting documentary on French television. This completely updated English translation is set to have a major impact on the debate in the UK and US and create significant levels of media coverage. The story it unearths - of the investigations into big business flying in the face of countless scientific health warnings - is one that too few of us have yet heard"--Publisher's description
650			_a Meat industry and trade.
650			_aFood additives -- Toxicology _xPopular works.
650			_aNitro compounds.
650			_aCarcinogens _xPopular works.
650			_aFood additives _xToxicology.
700			_aWatson, David _etranslator
942			_2lcc _cBK _h1955 _iCOU _kTS