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Food Safety's Dirty Little Secret

Increasingly, the government is leaving the job in private hands

Posted September 10, 2008

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Food Safety Training

Obviously greater emphasis on inspections is necessary, but another critical way of preventing foodborne diseases is through direct training of food handlers. Unfortunately, this is rarely provided to hands-on food workers. Instead, the usual approach is to give supervisors some training with the hope that safety knowledge will trickle-down. With millions of foodborne illnesses preventable, it seems clear that a little training would reep great rewards. Some employers realize this and do provide education. Our own NIH-funded online course has shown that training can be inexpensive and convenient.

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Food Safety VS War

Bush likes war better. $1 trillion dollars better.

Food Safety

Don't count on the government to oversee anything. The FDA had not a clue how and where tomatoes were grown and how they were used. That roma tomatoes are in salsa, but other to tomatoes are not. That tomatoes are marketed as gas greens, vien ripe, greenhouse, hydroponic, etc. and so even at the start not all tomatoes should have been implicated in the scare. In addition, FDA does not know how to survey those affected, unlike the Stae of Minnesota which correctly ruled out tomatoes from the get go because it asked those people who did not get sick what they ate. So folks eating tomatoes in the affected areas (restaurants, etc.) did not get sick, ergo tomatoes were not a source. The FDA only interviewed those who got sick.

Globalization is here to stay because of consumer desires for year round fresh availability and because of comparative advantage and efficiency. Despite the local food movement, in many instances the cost of production and carbon foot print of locally produced food, including transportation, is higher than that of large commercial production. Alice Waters doesn't have to fee the world, just the elite.

The key actor in all of this is the retailer. UK and European retailers insist on knowing where their product comes from and whether it is certified by Eurepgep and other 3rd party auditors. American retailers don't give a damn - they claim safety but then they tend to buy from the cheapest supplier. That's how three guys in a warehouse in Texas distributed the chilis that got everyone sick.

Food Safety is a Global Concern

The globalization of the food supply has overwhelmed governments and raised complex safety issues.

Interesting piece.

See my site: Foodsafetycentral.net

for more information.

Toothless FDA & USDA

The FDA & USDA cannot issue recalls. They can "encourage" the manufacturer to do so, but have no power on their own.

They are so small and under budgeted, that they have to rely on the food & drug companies notifying them that there's a problem. Naturally, they take their time.

Something is very wrong with both these facts.

Marion Nestle has just released "Pet Food Politics". It's about the Chinese melamine in the pet food recall of 2007, that killed over 1000 pets. Did you know that some of the melamine tainted dogfood was eaten by pigs who were then slaughtered & packaged for human consumption?

this whole business is part of the corporate plan

to push private food irradiation down our throats.

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