Food safety diagnostics: Ensuring safe food for soldiers

Beach discusses food safety in the US Army. US troops are deployed worldwide to places where commercial food sanitation standards may be inferior than those at home and enforcement of those standards may be less than optimal. Food-borne disease outbreaks are a significant threat to our deployed figh...

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Published inArmy Logistician Vol. 32; no. 3; p. 20
Main Author Beach, John C
Format Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Fort Lee Superintendent of Documents, United States Army 01.05.2000
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Armed forces
Food safety
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Summary:Beach discusses food safety in the US Army. US troops are deployed worldwide to places where commercial food sanitation standards may be inferior than those at home and enforcement of those standards may be less than optimal. Food-borne disease outbreaks are a significant threat to our deployed fighting forces, capable of incapacitating many troops at any given moment, and this is a risk the Army cannot afford to take.
ISSN:2153-5973
2153-6015