Food safety advocates say this latest outbreak shows how budget cuts have hampered the ability of federal and state health agencies to effectively protect public health.
Wayne Pacelle, The Humane Society of the United States. March 21, 2011.
Lawmakers in Florida and Iowa have introduced bills to establish criminal penalties for going undercover at agricultural facilities and simply taking pictures.
Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!. December 28, 2010.
Then-U.S. ambassador to France Craig Stapleton was concerned about France's decision to ban cultivation of GM corn produced by Monsanto and threatened recourse.
A recent poll showed that most people thought the top three food stories of the year were all about food safety -- but there are many more that made our list.
Virginia Sole-Smith, The Progressive. May 28, 2010.
The squid in stores in the United States is often processed in horrendous conditions in Mexico, such as the Santa Rosalia factory in Baja California Sur.
In the focus on E. coli and salmonella, meat contaminated by heavy metals, veterinary drugs and pesticides has been slipping through the bureaucratic cracks.
And this despite the fact that such bagged salads often display claims of 'prewashed' or 'triple-washed' and attract customers who consider them cleaner and safer.
Thousands are dying every year from food-borne illness and we have a confusing morass of regulations and agencies charged with enforcing them. How to sort out the mess?
This year almost half a million pounds of E. coli infected beef have been recalled and sadly the government is far more concerned with protecting companies than public health.
The recent discovery of an industrial chemical in animal feed and pet food imported from China exposes the inherent weakness of an industrial global food system designed to benefit multinational agribusiness companies.
