Food Safety's Dirty Little Secret

The answer is not more regulation. What we need is a complete downfall of the industrial food complex and a return to local food production. Know your farmer's name, where your beef came from, etc and chances are you will be much safer than buying the mass-produced "food" that is sold in your grocery store.

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Increasingly, Republican government believes EVERY regulatory matter is "best" in private hands. That's why corporations win and you lose, again and again.

Remember, those "private" security guys put all 19 hijackers of 9/11 on airplanes---with knives.

FOOD SAFETY INSPECTIONS

We can't inspect our way to food safety. Also, we can't test our way to food safety. The sampling errors are too great. We need an effective kill-step in every food process, at a point determined by HACCP, which has a significant risk of bacterial contamination.

Irradiation is the only possible choice for many processing food safety issues. We could, in the alternative, accept the high costs in illness (over 78 million cases), and death (5000 annually).

In the last 20 years, organizations like Science in the Public Interest, have been a strong advocate for cleaner farms. In that time the number of illnesses and deaths attributed to food borne illness has remained unchanged.