AS British consumers wait to see if a diet of beefburgers back in the 1980s
will prove fatal in the 1990s and beyond, food safety has come to be seen as a
more pressing topic than it used to be. And if you want to know the worst about
what may be lurking in your lunch, check out the Bad Bug Book, courtesy of the
US Food and Drug Administration, at http://vm.cfsan.fda. gov/~mow/intro.html.
Dangerous bacteria, parasites, worms, viruses and natural toxins—yuk.
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