Food Systems, the Environment & Public Health Flashcards
What are activities in food systems?
- production
- processing
- distribution
- retail
- preparation
- consumption
What are manufactured agricultural inputs?
- pesticides (to get rid of pests eating at the food) Heavy use led to pesticide resistance
- synthetic fertilizers
- genetically engineered seeds
What is IFAP?
Industrial Food Animal Production?
What is the goal of this waste agriculture problem?
Sustainable Agriculture
-a healthy, sustainable, resilient food system
What is a pesticide?
a chemical substance that is used to prevent, destroy, repel, or mitigate any pests or insects
-helps to kill insects, rodents, etc
Prehistoric pesticides?
- sulfur
- whale oil
- arsenic
- nicotine
- copper
DDT?
dichloro diphenyl trichloroethan
-developed as the 1st modern synthetic insecticides in the 1940s
Exposure pathways?
- inhalation
- ingestion
- injection
- dermal absorption (% of body exposed)
What is drift?
off target physical exposure of pesticides from one field to another
Inert ingredients are not as important as active T or F?
False
-inert ingredients are just as important even if they’re not named
What are OCs?
organochlorine persticides
Why are children more vulnerable?
Their systems are not yet fully developed
