Water is one of the main ways fresh fruits and vegetables become contaminated with deadly pathogens …
The food side is approaching failure … not because of the people or just one unit, but because of the low priority of food …
Failing to identify the causes of bacteria, the agency has often waited months prior to issuing product recalls …
CFSAN has a budget that exceeds $1.1 billion per year and is responsible for the safety of human foods …
Why not create a single, independent body that combines all the food safety functions of the FDA and FSIS …
They caught a lot things that they missed last fall because they weren’t looking closely enough …
The problems should shake the confidence of anyone counting on government to protect their health …
Four takeaways based on over 50 interviews that found the food side has been terribly neglected …
Thank you for the invitation to speak with you today. Food safety is a thankless profession, and my comments today are not meant to diminish anyone’s commitment to food safety rather share a consumer perspective. I am here on behalf of all individuals and families that continue to be impacted by foodborne disease. Stop Foodborne Illness, or STOP, is a national public health organization that was born out of tragedy almost 30 years ago. It was the same tragedy that launched Mr. Marler’s practice. Parents, who lost their children to a foodborne pathogen they had never heard of, wanted answers. Through their pain, STOP’s founding mothers and fathers learned that deadly bacteria were legally allowed to be present in the food they fed to their children.
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