Product Description: In Environment at Risk scientific principles, concepts, and methodologies in environmental science are explored and explained.

Product Description: The damage we are doing to our planet is endangering our wildlife, harming our environment and may even be destroying our future, too. This series examines these issues and looks at our relationship with the physical world around us...read more

Product Description: Describes the health risks associated with unsafe or contaminated food, the work of food safety experts and government agencies who monitor the food supply, and food safety concerns for the future.Title: Food SafetyAuthor: Woog, AdamPublisher: Erickson PrPublication Date: 2007/09/01Number of Pages: 64Binding Type: LIBRARYLibrary of Congress: 200701615...read more

Looks at the nutritional and physical makeup of common foods, including broccoli, potato chips, and garlic, and explains why fresh food spoils.

Explains how food can become contaminated, and discusses ways of preserving food and recognizing spoiled food

Surveys the harmful and beneficial effects of natural food components, synthetic additives, pesticides, hormones, and other chemical substances contained in today's food supplies

Describes the various additives used in food, discusses contamination of food by bacteria, and examines the danger from agricultural chemicals.