Food Industry Safety – No More !?
- Posted by Alvin on June 15th, 2009 filed in Diet, Health Risks, Information, Real World
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The recent rash of salmonella contamination in the food industry has shaken the trust that people have in the food industry. Why, the supermarket culture of food being readily available and safe at that has stood long and proud for many years and such cases have indeed taken trust away from the many food producres worldwide. from cases of contaminated spinach, tomatoes, peanut butter and recently pistachios, seems profits are taking the lead in the many companies that stocks the shelves of our local supermarkets. Much so they have forgotten the basics of food handling which has very strict measures for observance as imposed by the FDA not cleaning and sanitizing equipment as needed and specified by law.
Government is also to blame for they should have checks and balances in place to detect such cases before they hit the millions of shelves all over the world. Complacency and lack of constant monitoring has played it’s part as well as commercialism which focuses on quantity rather than quality of foods that are to get through no matter what. The technology is there to screen for such contaminants, just wonder why it all got through safety and quality checks. There are a select few of these huge food firms that have initiated self-imposed recalls due to safety issues they themselves have discovered. Most cases get reported after they have already infected people with the medical community at the forefront of reporting but red-tape seems to always delay swift action as the impact is widespread and the economic impact so wide, safety takes a second-place position over the fact food must be on the shelves, safe or not.