LETTER: Food safety - (New York Times)
December 1, 2007 – 7:24 pmhttp://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/01/opinion/lweb01food.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin
http://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/2007/12/articles/food-safety-communication/imported-and-domestic-food-should-be-held-to-the-same-standard/index.html
Erik Autor, Falls Church, Va., writes regarding, “Youre Eating That? (editorial, Nov. 26) to say that although two out of the three recalls listed in the editorial spinach, hamburger patties and seafood involved domestically produced food, the remainder of the editorial focuses solely on imported food with the implication that imports are the primary problem.
Autor says that most of the big food recalls over the last two years have involved domestic products lettuce and spinach from California (E. coli), ground beef from Iowa (E. coli), canned chili from Georgia (botulism), peanut butter from Georgia (salmonella), chicken pot pies from Missouri (salmonella) and so on.
Therefore, the proper focus should be on effective enforcement by government agencies and proper quality control procedures and supply chain management by producers for all food products no matter where they originate, the United States or any other country.
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http://www.extension.iastate.edu/foodsafety/news/fsnews.cfm?newsid=22937
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