Tracking problems to source
Grocer group's team of forensic scientists specializes in fishing clues from fillets and prying confessions from tomato cans, and determining whether the 1,000 cases of foreign items in food each year are prank, error or sabotage. Lab is vestige of early 1900s, when canning was less reliable and botulism was more frequent.
The Washington Post 2008-05-20
Categories: Processed Foods, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Index: Calvary Baptist Church, Campbell Soup, communion grape juice, Connecticut, Connecticut Forensic Laboratory, Connecticut Toxicology Laboratory, Darien, Darien Police Department, David J. Herman, FDA, Food Products Association, Fred Komm, General Mills, Grocery Manufacturers of America, Jeffrey Barach, Jim Charboneau, Kraft Foods, National Museum of Natural History, Robert Brackett, Smithsonian Institution