EDITORIAL: Food safety takes on urgency - (The Tennessean)
June 27, 2008 – 7:57 pmHealth experts have been warning Americans to limit the processed “fast” foods we eat because of our country’s near-epidemic of obesity, diabetes and other conditions caused by poor diet.
But the swing to eating more fresh foods, even organic produce, has been given pause in recent years, as potentially deadly bacteria have cropped up in beef, spinach and, most recently tomatoes.
Carefree eating has, by necessity, become a thing of the past.
The outbreak of E. coli in spinach in 2006 killed five people and sickened hundreds. The outbreak of salmonella in round and plum tomatoes has made 552 Americans in 32 states and the District of Columbia ill so far (at least four of them in Tennessee), with the number expected to rise, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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