Discussion

Instructions

Post at least one comment to each of the questions listed below. Also post your own questions and thoughts on the lesson.

1. What influences our perceptions about food safety?
2. Is it appropriate to use the adjective "toxic" regardless of dose?
3. Why is it that we are more willing to accept risk if we have personal control over "taking" the risk.
4. 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

1. Log into Blackboard and go to the foodTOX course.
2. Click on Discussion.
3. Choose the discussion topic Lecture discussions.
4. 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.
5. Posting Messages:
    
   • Click on Create Message
   • Type your subject and message
   • Attach any files you need to
   • Press Post
6. Refer to Blackboard Help for additional assistance.

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