Discussion
Instructions
Post at least one comment to each of the questions listed below. Also post your own questions and thoughts on the lesson.
- What influences our perceptions about food safety?
- Is it appropriate to use the adjective "toxic" regardless of dose?
- Why is it that we are more willing to accept risk if we have personal control over "taking" the risk.
- Mass media often takes complex scientific and statistical descriptions of certain risks and magnifies their importance using "power words" such as "cancer-causing", "toxic chemical", "deadly" and even "poisonous". Think about how you would communicate the risks to human health associated with "normal" background levels of the well-known, "toxic" heavy metal, lead at 1 mg/kg. Your target audience in this exercise is a mixed population, community group.
How to Participate in the Discussion
- Log into
Blackboard and go to the foodTOX course.
- Click on Discussion.
- Choose the discussion topic Lecture discussions.
- Reading Messages:
- Under the Subject column click on a message.
- If you see a Plus next to a message that means there are
more messages in that thread. They can be expanded by clicking on the
Plus.
- Posting Messages:
- Click on Create Message
- Type your subject and message
- Attach any files you need to
- Press Post
- Refer to
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