食品质量与安全专业英语

Special English for Food Quality and Safety 食品质量与安全专业英语

College:Food Engineering College 学院：食品工程学院

Chapter one: overview of Food Safety

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Basic definition of food Basic characteristics of food

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Food safety and food security

Representative examples: Big head baby Kwashiorkor& Marasmus: 恶性营养不良病 Big head baby case in Anhui province Occurred, 2003 Exposed in medium, April 2004 Sufferers 229 Food safety or quality issue? Dead 12

Representative examples: Stone kidney baby Melamine September 2008, Exposed in News Stone kidney baby in Gansu To October, suffered baby - 52,857 Final suffered children - 300,000 Food safety or quality issue?

1 Basic definition 食品，指各种供人食用或者饮用的成品和 原料以及按照传统既是食品又是药品的物 品，但是不包括以治疗为目的物品。 食品安全，指食品无毒、无害，符合应当 有的营养要求，对人体健康不造成任何急 性、亚急性或者慢性危害。 ——《食品安全法》 第九十九条

1.1 What is food? A raw, cooked, or processed edible substance, ice, beverage, or ingredient used of intended for use or for sale in whole or in part for human consumption, or chewing gum. 生，熟，或加工的食用物质，冰、饮料、或全部或 部分使用或出售的供人们食用的材料、或口香糖。 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Service, Food and Drug Administration, 1999 Food Code

美国食品和药品管理局, 卫生和公共服务部，1999 食品法案

1.1 What is food? Any edible substance taken by mouth (food + beverage + tobacco)

2 Food function? Provide energy for activities. Provide nutrients for building and maintain body tissue Provide functional factor for regulating body processes.

2.1 Basic requirement for food products

Safe : no harmful to health Nutritional : benefit for health Enjoyable : satisfactory for sensory (Color, Tenderness,Flavor, Taste, Weight)

Acceptable: reasonable price

3 Food safety A suitable product which when consumed orally either by a human or an animal does not cause health risk to consumer. Neither zero risk nor absolute certainty Reasonable certainty of no harm Reasonable certainty that the risks are no greater than a socially acceptable level

3.1 Food security When all people at all times have both physical and economic access to sufficient food to meet their dietary needs for a productive and healthy life. (US AID 美国国际开发总署(U.S. Agency for International Development)

Food terrorism: an act or threat of deliberate contamination of food by human consumption with chemicals, biological or radionuclear agents for the purpose of causing injury or death to civilian populations or disrupting social , economic or political stability. (WHO, 2003, 世界卫

生组织WorldHealth Organization)

3.2 Food Safety and Food Security Similarity toxin, harmful Difference food safety – unintentional contamination. Food security – intentional addition, controlled by security department.

3.3 Examples Cadmium rice 镉大米 Guangdong province, 2013 Cadmium

3.3 Examples Poison ginger 毒姜 Shandong province, May 2013 Aldicarb 涕灭威

Summary Basic definitions Basic characteristics of food Differences between food safety and food security

Home workWhy did the food safety issue happen in modern society? Moral Money Monitoring Law Education