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Tips for Researching and Writing a
School Report
Selected Topics For School Reports
Conducting Your Own Research
Being A Good Consumer and Citizen
Food Safety: A Team Approach
Provides an overview of the responsibilities of the
different government agencies responsible for monitoring the safety of
the food supply and links to the agencies web sites.
Other Non-Government
Food and Nutrition Web sites
Provides a list of selected non-government web sites related
to food and nutrition topics.
Selected Sources
On The History Of FDA
Provides an extensive bibliography
of public affairs on the history of FDA and the regulation of foods in
the US.
Health Information
on Line
Provides tips and links for finding information on the
web as well as advice to help you determine the reliability of different
web sites.
A Guide to Finding Reliable Information
Advice from the World Health Organization to help internet users obtain
reliable, independent, and comparable information on the internet.
Milestones in U.S. Food and Drug Law History
Provides a chronological summary of key FDA events.
The Long Struggle for the 1906 Law
Provides the story of the events that led to the enhancement
of the 1906 Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act.
The "C" in the Food Drug & Cosmetic Act
Shows biographies of FDA commissioners and their predecessors.
Overview of the Food and Drug Administration
Provides an overview of the agency, which regulates food, drugs and medical devices.
Overview of Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
Provides an overview of the FDA organization whose responsibility
for ensuring that food is safe, nutritious and wholesome, and cosmetics
are safe; and that they are honestly, accurately and informatively labeled.
How Laws Are Made
Provides a brief overview from the House of Representatives
on how federal laws are made.
Food Law and Regulation
Provides access to the full text of federal government regulations and laws.
Consumer Research on Food Labels and
Food Safety
Provides brief summaries of consumer research conducted by FDA and USDA
Selected Sources on the History of FDA
A bibliography of interpretive secondary sources
with ample reference to additional literature
What is the Scientific
Process and Ideas for Science Projects
Provides an explanation of the scientific process and
suggests ideas for agricultural science projects.
Requesting Information From FDA
Provides guidance on how to request information from FDA.
Requesting
Records from FDA
Provides guidance on how to use the Freedom of Information
Act to request FDA records.
How an Outbreak Investigation is Conducted
Provides an overview of the procedures followed in conducting an investigation of an infectious disease outbreak.
Consumer Advice
Provides Food Safety advice in a question and answer format.
How to Report Illness and Product Problems
Provides links to the government agencies that follow-up
on problems with food products.
Making Your Voice Heard
Provides guidance for how you can comment on FDA regulations.
Food Safety Careers
Learn about a variety of food safety careers
through interviews with 16 food science professionals.
Kids' Science Page National Agricultural Library
Resources for Students (CDC)