US: EDITORIAL: Youre eating that? - (New York Times)
November 26, 2007 – 11:36 pmAccording to a survey for the Food Marketing Institute cited in this editorial, only 66 percent of consumers in the United States are confident that the food they buy is safe, down from 82 percent last year. With news of killer spinach, tainted hamburger patties and imported seafood that can provide as many toxins as omega-3s, who can blame them?
Food safety, like toy safety, is part of a growing national concern that government agencies that are supposed to protect consumers have been whittled down to incompetence. The Bush administration insists it is focusing on import safety finally. The editorial says that Congress must keep pressing for a complete overhaul of the consumer protection system. Each day there is news of another dangerous hole in the consumer safety net.
USA Today pointed out a particularly glaring problem last week. The private laboratories that test foods from companies on the governments import […]
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