AUSTRALIA: Gut pains, courtesy of Macdonald - (Sydney Morning Herald)
February 29, 2008 – 8:36 pmhttp://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/gut-pains-courtesy-of-macdonald/2008/02/29/1204226990390.html
http://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/2008/02/articles/food-safety-communication/restaurant-inspection-results-in-australia-not-happening/index.html
If you want to know why the public is so disillusioned with the State Government, look no further than Ian Macdonald.
Moore writes that as well as being responsible for primary industry, farms, power stations, mines and the development of the state, Macdonald is supposed to ensure the safety of food from restaurants and takeaways. When you get food poisoning after dining out, Macdonald is the man ultimately responsible, not that you’d know it.
The story says that food poisoning is an issue all over the world. To keep levels as low as possible, developed countries do three things: employ food inspectors, educate workers about food safety and, increasingly, they tell people the truth. Macdonald doesn’t mind the first two, it’s the last one that makes him gag.
When Britain got freedom of information laws three years ago, one of the first decisions by the information commissioner was to rule that results of […]
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