Health Food Industry – References

REFERENCES

COMPANIES

Cienfuegos, Paul. The Organic Foods Movement – Led by Heinz Corporation or We the People? The Time to Choose is Now. Common Dreams, May 31, 2004.

Glover, Paul. What We Need to Know About the Corporate Takeover of the “Organic” Food Market. Also titled The Corporate Corruption of Organics–A New Web Site. Organic Consumers Association, June 2003.

Howard, Philip H. Michigan State University website includes many graphic charts of the organic food industry from 2007.

In New Marketing Tactic, Foodmakers Urge Doctors to Advocate Brands. Wall Street Journal, May 25, 2004.

Ness, Carol. Mega-Producers Tip Scales as Organic Goes Mainstream. San Francisco Chronicle, April 30, 2006.

Sligh, Michael and Caroline Christman. Who Owns Organic? The Global Status, Prospects, and Challenges of a Changing Organic Market. Rural Advancement Foundation International, Pittsboro, NC, 2003.

Pollan, Michael. Behind the Organic-Industrial Complex. New York Times, May 1, 2001.

http://www.etcgroup.org/en/materials/publications.html?pub_id=707

http://nutritionwonderland.com/2009/02/organic-corporate-hierarchy/

GENETIC MODIFICATION

Caldwell, D. 2002. A Cotton Conundrum. Perspectives OnLine: The Magazine of the
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, North Carolina State University,Winter 2002.

European Commission, 2000. Economic Impacts of Genetically Modified Crops on theAgri-food Sector. http://europa.eu.int/comm/agriculture/publi/gmo/cover.htm

FAO, 2004. The State of World Food and Agriculture 2004. Biotechnology: Meeting the Needs of the Poor? http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/focus/2004/41655/

Fernandez-Cornejo, J. & Caswell. April 2006. Genetically Engineered Crops in the UnitedStates. USDA/ERS Economic Information Bulletin n. 11.
http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/eib11/eib11.pdf

FoEI, January 2007. Who Benefits from GM crops? An analysis of the global performance of GM crops (1996-2006)

Hollis, P.L., February 15 2006. Why plant cotton’s new genetics? Southeast Farm Press.

ISAAA, 2006b. GM crops: the first ten years- Global Socio-Economic and Environmental impacts. http://www.isaaa.org/resources/publications/briefs/36/download/isaaa-brief-36-2006.pdf

Meyer, L., S.MacDonald& L. Foreman,March 2007. Cotton Backgrounder. USDA Economic Research Service Outlook Report.

Motavalli, P.P. et al., 2004. Impact of genetically modified crops and their management on soil microbially mediated plant nutrient transformations, J. Environ. Qual. 33:816-824;

Qaim, M. and Zilberman, D., 7 February 2003. Yield Effects of Genetically Modified
Crops in Developing Countries
, Science, vol. 299, p. 900.

Ron Eliason, 2004. Stagnating National Bean Yields. 2004 Midwest Soybean
Conference, cited by Dan Sullivan, “Is Monsanto’s patented Roundup Ready gene
responsible for a flattening of U.S. soybean yields,”NewFarm.org, September 28, 2004, online at http://www.newfarm.org/features/0904/soybeans/index.shtml

PCB’s

UNEP Chemicals (1999) (PDF). Guidelines for the Identification of PCBs and Materials Containing PCBs. United Nations Environment Programme. pp. 2. http://www.chem.unep.ch/pops/pdf/PCBident/pcbid1.pdf.

Amy Boate, Greg Deleersnyder, Jill Howarth, Anita Mirabelli, and Leanne Peck (2004). Chemistryof PCB’s http://wvlc.uwaterloo.ca/biology447/modules/intro/assignments/Introduction2a.htm.

Rogan, W J; B C Gladen, J D McKinney, N Carreras, P Hardy, J Thullen, J Tingelstad, M Tully (1986-02-01). “Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and dichlorodiphenyl dichloroethene (DDE) in human milk: effects of maternal factors and previous lactation.”. Am J Public Health 76 (2): 172–177.

Williams, Florence (2005-01-09). “Toxic Breast Milk?”. The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/09/magazine/09TOXIC.html.

Contamination of rice bran oil with PCB used as the heating medium by leakage through penetration holes at the heating coil tube in deodorization chamber”. Japan Science and Technology Agency. http://shippai.jst.go.jp/en/Detail?fn=2&id=CB1056031.

Safe S, Bandiera S, Sawyer T, Robertson L, Safe L, Parkinson A, Thomas PE, Ryan DE, Reik LM, Levin W (1985). PCBs: structure-function relationships and mechanism of action. Environ. Health Perspect. 60: 47–56.