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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
3235.0: Monday, November 11, 2002: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| Food is a human requirement. Unfortunately, public health professionals rarely engage in discussions about food that extend beyond its nutritional value, or the microbes causing foodborne illness. Yet food, and food production in the United States, has undergone dramatic change in recent decades. Food production is more concentrated, more industrial, more technological, and more corporate than ever before. The latest science suggests these factors have contributed to farms more likely to emit pollutants – such antibiotics, hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, air particulates and nitrates – into the surrounding air, soil and water, with health impacts on nearby and downstream populations. The food produced, too, may be more likely to be contaminated with drug-resistant pathogens, foreign genetic material, as well as toxic chemicals such as organophosphate insecticides, lead, cadmium and arsenic. The public health threats created demand a much broader paradigm for understanding, monitoring and regulating food quality. This session starts with a presentation on the ecological approach to food and health, followed by several case studies of specific problems in food health that defy old paradigms for understanding them. These include the contamination of food and rural water sources with antibiotic-resistant bacteria; the legal recycling of heavy metals and other industrial waste into commercial fertilizers; and hydrogen sulfide poisoning of people living near confined animal facilities. | |||
| Learning Objectives: 1) Participants will identify ways in which food production in the United States has undergone dramatic change in recent decades; 2) How farms affect surrounding air, soil and water quality with health impacts on nearby and downstream populations; 3) Understand how food, too, may be more likely to be contaminated with drug-resistant pathogens, foreign genetic material, as well as toxic chemicals such as organophosphate insecticides, lead, cadmium and arsenic. | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Robert Lawrence, MD Kaye H. Kilburn, MD Duff Wilson David B. Wallinga, MD, MPA | |||
| John Neuberger, MBA, MPH, DrPH Robin Lee, MPH David B. Wallinga, MD, MPA | |||
| David B. Wallinga, MD, MPA | |||
| Healthy Diets and Healthy Ecosystems Robert Lawrence, MD | |||
| Health Effects Downwind of Agricultural Activities Generating Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) Kaye H. Kilburn, MD | |||
| Fateful harvest: Recycling toxic waste into common fertilizers Duff Wilson | |||
| Superbugs and liquid silver: Upstream approaches to food and health David B. Wallinga, MD, MPA | |||
| Organized by: | Environment | ||
| Endorsed by: | Epidemiology | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Environmental Health, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work | ||