Is it Safe to Eat Out?

About the Book

There are over 76 million cases of food poisoning a year with 315,000 hospitalizations and over 9 thousand deaths! Food poisoning is a worse public health hazard than toxic waste!

About the Author

Thomas Peacock is a Supervising Environmental Health Specialist with the County of Alameda in California, currently manager of the Solid & Medical Waste Unit. The office is across the street from the Oakland Raiders Football Team. He has worked in Environmental Health for 26 years. He received his B.S.E.H. from East Tennessee State University and a M.P.A. from California State University, Hayward. He will be moderator of a panel on restaurant grade average at the National Environmental Health Association Conference in Minneapolis at the end of June 2002.

He is a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, in the Medical Service Corp, and is also Civil Affairs qualified. He may participate in the war on terrorism or homeland defense but cannot speak further at this time.

His wife, Deborah, and he have been married most of their lives and have four adult children. Tom is no relationship to Tom Peacock Cadillac of Houston, TX. In his spare time he coaches youth track and field and has had several athletes go on to be state and national champions in high school. He is also very active in his parish, volunteering hundreds of hours every year. His favorite place to go to eat is Las Vegas.